Senior Bioinformatician

Job title:

Senior Bioinformatician

Company

Kemio Consulting

Job description

07th March, 2025Senior Bioinformatician
Cambridge, UK
Hybrid – 3 days onsiteAre you experienced working with Microbial genomic data? Are you able to develop new bioinformatics tools and pipelines?This Cambridge based biotech have built a microbiome profiling platform, that supports drug discovery across a range of disease areas, including Oncology and IBD. You’ll join a well-established team tasked with developing precision microbiome medicines to improve patient outcomes.We are looking for a Bioinformatician with strong experience in microbial genomics and microbiome science. You will be involved in analysis of data from the clinical trials, and functional analyses corresponding to the mechanisms of action of drug products. In addition, you will be expected to develop new bioinformatics tools where appropriate and provide bioinformatics support for translational biology and preclinical teams.This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to be involved in the early stages of this novel area of live bacterial therapeutics and to help shape the informatics and analytics of the company to meet the needs of this new discipline. Innovation and independent problem-solving in a cross-functional environment are key skills, with a strong bioinformatics background.Key responsibilities will be to:

• Conduct in-depth analyses of microbial genomic data to elucidate underlying functional mechanisms
• Analyse association of large-scale biological datasets (metagenomics, transcriptomics etc) with clinical metadata, including data from clinical trials
• Identify, develop and implement new bioinformatics tools and pipelines to provide novel biological insights
• Provide analytical and bioinformatics support across the company

Candidate Specification

• PhD in Bioinformatics or related field
• In-depth knowledge of microbial genomics
• Extensive practical experience working with metagenomics and/or transcriptomics data
• Familiarity with metabolic pathway prediction using database such as KEGG or Metacyc needs
• Programming proficiency in Python and/or R
• Experience in working with clinical datasets and patient metadata (desirable)
• Experience with multi-omics analysis, and integrating diverse data types
• Familiarity with phylogenetic/taxonomic/functional classification of genomes and metagenomes (desirable)

You will join this company at a really exciting time as they have multiple candidates moving to the clinic. You’ll have a chance to collaborate with world renowned scientists and institutes and shape the company’s bioinformatics capabilities for the future.We are interested in hearing from innovative data scientists in the microbiome space, please send you CV to [email protected] to be considered for this position.Keywords: Bioinformatics / bioinformatician / computational biology / biologist / metagenomics / Python / R / Python / microbiome / microbial / metagenomic / senior / drug discovery / oncology / IBD / metabolic pathways / Cambridge / biotech / biotechnology / metabolic / clinical /

Expected salary

Location

Cambridgeshire

Job date

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:58:36 GMT

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