COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGIST (Solid Programming skills in Java/Python, prefer life sciences/biology exp)
Ancestry.com based in SF, Ca is the world's largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 13 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one million subscribers to create nearly 26 million family trees that contain nearly 2.6 billion profiles, and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
With employees around the world, we are committed to hiring the very best talent. We are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and we offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry.com.
Job Description:
Ancestry.com is seeking an exceptional candidate to join the Ancestry.com team as a Computational Biologist creating and implementing novel algorithms for genomic analysis. We are mounting a major effort to use genomics to shed light on human diversity, origins and relatedness. The successful candidate will join our efforts to develop, test and apply algorithms for defining the genetic markers that define families and shed light on genetic genealogy.
In this position, you will extract robust signals from human SNP data. You will develop and apply state-of-the-art methods to identify statistically significant markers that define regional or ethnic groups. You will develop and evaluate software, using tools such as MATLAB, R, etc. and collaborate with software engineers to generate robust and stable production versions. You will work closely with biologists in analyzing data and members of the product development team.
This position offers an exciting opportunity to apply cutting edge computational approaches to an unprecedented, large-scale set of pedigreed human genome data.
Characteristic duties will include:
· Developing and implementing strategies for the analysis of large genome variation data with respect to human diversity and origins
· Developing and implementing strategies for integrating genomic data with pedigrees.
· Developing and implementing data analysis pipelines, quality assessment procedures,
· Help develop new analytical approaches that yield the greatest possible insight from genetics, genealogy and genomics data sets.
· Communicate results effectively to a diverse community of scientists and lay people.
Required Skills:
· Advanced degree in genetics, biology, mathematics, computer science or related field (Ph.D. or M.S. with significant relevant experience) Prefer a top tier school
· Proven scientific background demonstrating a strong understanding of genetics, genomics and the quantitative analysis of large biological data sets.
· Deep programming and analysis abilities demonstrated by formal training in computer science, statistics, applied math, physics, engineering, bioinformatics or equivalent.
· Must possess excellent general computational and programming skills; familiarity with SQL, Java (or C/C++), Python (or Perl), and analysis tools like MATLAB and/or R.
· Excellent organizational skills
· Superior oral and written English communication skills required.
· Must be able to manage multiple simultaneous long-term computational projects while meeting frequent project deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
· Must be able to translate high-level data processing and analysis requests into concrete tasks and operate independently and interface with team members to achieve the needed results.
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