Project Appointment Researcher - Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Position Description:

As a Project Appointment Researcher, you will have the following primary responsibilities:

• Develop data management plan for Dr. Elena Semina's laboratory.
• Manage the migration of data from an old system to new, reduce duplicate files that exist within data, institute file compression to archive older files.
• Manage a large data transfer between institutions.
• Explore use of RCC high performance computing (HPC) cluster and assist with establishing protocols to use SpliceAI and other Bioinformatics tools; determine whether Varseq runs better in HPC.
• WGS sample processing - set up Varseq software to run projects, exporting and merging the trio files; make suggestions to optimize processing steps.

Preferred Schedule:

Position Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum education: Masters degree in a scientific or medical field
Minimum experience: 0 years

Preferred Qualificiations:
Preferred experience: Computing, Computer Science

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