Senior Bioinformatician (Structural Biology)

Posted 23 May 2023
LocationCambridge
Job type Permanent
Discipline Data Science & AI
Reference87003
Contact NameLewis Besbeech

Job description

BioTalent are pleased to be working once again with an exciting high-growth Biotech who are based in Cambridge, UK.

This opportunity will give a Senior Bioinformatician the chance to work in an emerging field of science, surrounded by high-performing colleagues and will give insights into the full life cycle of novel therapeutic discovery, clinical research and commercialisation.

This role will offer you:
  • Hybrid working arrangement.
  • Highly competitive salary/benefits (share options and discretionary bonus).
  • An opportunity to be part of leading organisation who respect and protect their people.

You will be responsible for:
  • Mining public datasets, interrogating data and integrating the increasingly large in-house datasets.
  • Working alongside high-performing R&D teams to process, store and visualise external and internal omics data types.
  • Contribution to the drug development program as a technical expert and developing the strategy to ensure all scientists can access and make use of the data.
  • Provide computational structural biology input to the programs.
  • Contribute to updating the bioinformatics databases.

You will bring the following:
  • Expertise in mining publicly available datasets relevant to drug discovery.
  • Experience with bioinformatics tools for computational modelling of protein structure mining using software such as ‘Rosetta’.
  • Good knowledge of protein visualisation software.
  • Experience with protein sequence analysis with software packages like ‘HMMER’.
  • Data integration skills/experience.
  • Python and/or R programming expertise.
  • Experience with version control and cloud computing.
  • Desirable – track record of building visualisation tools and front-end technologies.

If you would like to learn more about this unique opportunity or to recommend a valued professional from your network, you can reach out using the contacts below.

lewis.besbeech@biotalent.com // +44 (0)2033438780

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