Bioinformatics Expert at Mercor

Bioinformatics Expert | $90-110/hr | Remote

What you'll do

• Complete realistic, multi-step scientific data-analysis tasks in bioinformatics.
• Write original bioinformatics questions with exact, objective answers.
• Select and anonymize datasets for a model to analyze, using public archives or your own unpublished lab data.
• Use scientific software, code and command-line tools to produce reproducible analyses and structured final outputs.
• Develop Jupyter validation notebooks in Python or R that reproduce the correct answers to your questions.
• Interpret results in their biological or translational context, clearly explaining assumptions, uncertainty and conclusions.

Requirements

• A master's degree, PhD or equivalent research experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, statistical genetics, quantitative biology or a closely related field.
• Hands-on experience analyzing sequencing and omics data from raw reads through interpretation, such as bulk or single-cell RNA-seq, WGS/WES, variant calling, metagenomics or proteomics.
• Experience with one or more of samtools, bcftools, bedtools, BWA, Bowtie2 or BLAST, plus Python tools such as pandas, Biopython or pysam, or R/Bioconductor tools such as DESeq2, edgeR, limma or GenomicRanges.
• Ability to write and run Jupyter notebooks that reproduce your work exactly.
• Clear, precise scientific writing.

Preferred experience

• Access to unpublished or private datasets you have the right to share.
• Deep knowledge of a niche area, such as a non-model organism, an unusual assay or a specialized area of genomic interpretation.