Name of the post: Biocurator professional

(Interested candidates should email their CV to jobs@indna.in)

No. of post: 1

Location: NCL Venture Center, Pashan, Pune

inDNA Research Labs, a startup in the clinical genomics space, is currently seeking a talented and motivated clinical biocurator professional. This individual will collect and integrate data from scientific literature published by clinical and human genome research groups.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in bioinformatics, molecular biology, genetics or biotechnology

Required Skills:

• Technical expertise in clinical medicine, genetics, genomics or molecular biology.
• Some experience with analysing large genomic data sets and exposure to Next Generation Sequencing tools/data.
• Good understanding of genomic databases and their annotations (For example: GenBank, RefSeq, ENSEMBL, dbSNP etc).
• An understanding of bioinformatics analysis to identify variants within genomic data sets is desirable.
• Proficiency in communicating an understanding of genetics details
• An enthusiastic can-do mentality, a dedicated team-worker, having good verbal and written communication skills.
• Previous experience as an experimental scientist is a big plus.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Collect and integrate data from scientific literature published by clinical and human genome research groups.
• Evaluating peer-reviewed experimental research for annotation.
• Documenting the effects of genomic variants and the association with disease, using controlled vocabularies, ontologies and established guidelines.
• Maintain specifications and monitor day-to-day operations of the literature searching and triage pipelines and various error-checking processes.

Interested candidates should email their CV to jobs@indna.in