Developer - Bioinformatician; KSAS Biology

A part-time Developer - Bioinformatician position is available in Dr. Xin Chen’s laboratory to mainly study Drosophila cell fates and status using genomics, biostatistics, and systems biology approaches. We use single-cell or single-nuclear RNA-seq and ATAC-seq techniques to analyze transcriptome and epigenome of different staged cells during homeostasis, aging and tissue regeneration. This person will work closely with experimental biologists to study the molecular mechanisms that contribute to normal cellular differentiation and improved or impaired conditions for tissue regeneration.

Strong communication skills with biologists and good writing skills are desirable.

Support the creation, implementation, maintenance, performance, production support and documentation of various departmental and enterprise-wide application systems. This includes is not limited to the installation, modification, and testing of new and/or upgraded applications (packages or home grown), operating systems, file structures, hardware, communication devices, and productivity tools. Assist with database maintenance and application system code support.

Demonstrate a basic understanding of project life cycle and support sections of life cycle. Under direct supervision, assist with full life-cycle of small and/or parts of a large project. Once priorities are set, perform tasks under direct supervision with regular process updates. Examples can easily be found in existing code, methods or online. Typically, concepts used are simple and standard.

• The responsibilities listed below are typical examples of the work performed by this position.

• Not all duties assigned to this position are included, nor is it expected that everyone in this position will be assigned every job responsibility.

• Under direct supervision support business/clinical/education problems by meeting with clients and more Sr. IT colleagues to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Contribute to written documentation of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues.

• Review system requirements by meeting with clients and Sr. IT colleagues and researching existing technology to understand the business requirements for new applications.

• Contribute to the development of detailed tasks by analyzing project scope and milestones for projects in order to ensure product is delivered in a timely fashion according to software lifecycle standards.

• Contribute to functional/technical specifications by reviewing the provided system requirements, assist with putting them into functional and technical descriptions for use by programmers and business analysts to develop technical solutions.

• Assist with the development/change of data input, files/database structures, data transformation, algorithms, and data output by using appropriate computer language/tools to provide technical solution for application development tasks.

• Assist with documentation of code and associated processes by adhering to development methodologies, adding code comments and appropriate documentation to various knowledge-based system(s) to simplify code maintenance and to improve the support.

• Assist with the creation and documentation of test scenarios using the appropriate testing tools to validate and verify application functionality.

• Assist with the testing of all changes by using the appropriate test scenarios to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way.

• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of documentation by writing audience-appropriate materials to serve as technical and/or end-user references.

• Assist with the Implementation of changes by adhering to the change management policies and procedures for any given project to communicate to all parties the nature, significance, and risk factors of the solution.

• Assist in the monitoring of changes and resolution of problems by responding to problems as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output of the newly…