Higher Scientist-Bioinformatician

Location: South Mimms, Hertfordshire/Hybrid

The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products, and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.

We are currently looking for an experienced Higher Scientist (Bioinformatician) to join our Scientific Research and Innovation group. Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: carrying out bioinformatics analyses, to support the core functions of the section and projects central to SR&I business; writing and maintain bioinformatics scripts, software, and pipelines. Utilising version control project tracking and team collaboration tools; contributing to, and leading, written reports for submission to clients, relevant journals, and governmental agencies; liaising with SR&I scientists and maintain collaborations withing existing projects.

The successful candidate will be able to: read, write and understand code in R and either Perl or Python; work effectively in a Unix environment, including shell scripting, administration, and software installation and in a high-performance and Cloud (Google Cloud) computing environments, and and familiarity with submission of interactive and batch jobs; and to interpret and write bioinformatics and statistical reports and data, as well as having an understanding of genetics, next-generation sequencing technology and data formats.

In addition, you will have experience in building bioinformatic workflows and pipelines.

Closing date: 10^th February 2023.

To apply please click here  Higher Scientist-Bioinformatician-£33,502 p.a. + benefits - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK

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