Scientist, Computational Biology
Colossal Biosciences
Colossal is seeking a talented computational biologist with strong analytical skills to tackle challenging genotype-to-phenotype questions. The successful candidate will collaborate with scientists and engineers to design and perform bioinformatics analyses and integrate genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic datasets to support Colossal Bioscience’s de-extinction efforts. The candidate must have experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, or comparative genomics.
Preference will be given to candidates with a PhD who have experience developing genotype-to-phenotype AI/ML methods that integrate across data sets, particularly applying diverse data (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) alongside functional annotations and ontologies to data-sparse or non-model organisms.
**This position will be based out of Dallas, TX office or remote from within the United States with 1-2 yearly site visits.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Run data analysis with biological data
- Run comparative, functional, and statistical genomics analysis
- Develop new tools in R/Python for data analysis and visualization
- Prepare reports and presentations to communicate findings to wet-bench biologists
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Two years of bioinformatics experience in the following areas: Comparative Genomics, Functional Genomics / Multi-Omics, Molecular Evolution, or Applied AI in Genomics.
- Experience in the development of models to predict biological results or gene function, including variant detection, functional predictions, and genotype/phenotype relationships.
- Demonstrated 2 years of experience with scripting languages, including but not limited to: Python, R, Perl, Ruby, Java, and BASH.
- Ability to write and run custom bioinformatics scripts using existing published tools and occasionally tools developed to summarize the results in a digestible manner and deliver the information using established reporting procedures.
- Proficiency with handling large-scale genomic data in an HPC (SGE, SLURM, PBS) Linux and/or cloud environment (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Experience in using GIT version control software and maintaining well-documented, reproducible notebooks and workflows.
- Ability to design and maintain databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and connect with visual platforms to curate and share data with non-bioinformatics team members.
Preferred Skills and Abilities:
- Developing or implementing AI/ML frameworks and systems biology networks (e.g., interpretable aka visible deep neural networks like GenNet) for genotype-to-phenotype and functional predictions
- Calling germline and somatic sequence variants from high-coverage WGS, low-coverage WGS with imputation, and sequencing libraries from degraded or ancient DNA
- Performing evolutionary and statistical genomics analyses, including genome-wide scans for evolutionary signatures and selective sweeps and population genetics analysis (e.g., runs of homozygosity and association mapping)
- Constructing, interpreting, and utilizing pangenome graphs
- Statistical planning and collaboration with laboratory scientists on designing well-powered experiments to generate useful multi-omics data sets
- Understanding of precision gene editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 systems
Education and Experience:
- Masters with 2 years of experience or PhD in quantitative or basic science (computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, physics, or mathematics preferred) is required
What Colossal Offers You:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays so you can rest and recharge
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Company matched 401k retirement plan
- Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks
- Education reimbursement
- An opportunity to help us return the Earth to a healthier state
The team at Colossal is committed, colorful, passionate, intelligent, collaborative, creative, experienced, scientific and world-class. That sounds like a lot to fit into one building. That’s why we are spread out in several locations that include laboratories, test facilities, academic institutions, libraries and offices.
Through it all, however, we maintain a culture of positivity, hope, happiness and belief that we’re doing something big. Something Colossal.
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