Bioinformatics/machine Learning Co-op - Cambridge, United States - Wave Life Sciences

Wave Life Sciences

Verified Company

Cambridge, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Description:

Experience:

Experience in discovery and development of oligonucleotide therapeutics is a plus; Experience working in highperformance compute environment

Responsibilities:

Lead and oversee to machine learning projects; design and build pipelines that process and analyze related data, store summary results and integrate with the corporate ELN
Contribute to best practices for Wave's storageandcompute scalability of large bioinformatics datasets
Develop pipelines that determine mapping coordinates and homology of oligonucleotides to genomes and transcriptomes
Espouse best practices for version control for developed software (Git)

Key Skills:

Experience with common machine learning technique (SVA, random forest)
Experience with neural network based machine learning (Keras, Pytorch)
Knowledge of machine learning life cycle from inception to deployment
Experience in common NGS analyses task such mapping reads, quantification of gene expression, and/or variant calling.
Experience with common bioinformatics tools like Samtools, GATK, Bowtie, HISAT2, BLAST, htseqcount, DESeq, Salmon, STAR, or Subread
Knowledge of Illumina sequencing data analysis is necessary and experience with PacBio and/or Nanopore sequencing is a plus
Familiarity with UNIX computing environment and proficiency in either Python or R scripting. Experience with docker and Nextflow pipeline is also strongly recommended.
Ability to communicate finding of NGS data to a general scientific audience in both oral and written forms.

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