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Program Codes
35068
1LSTCOP
10269
Employment Percentage
25.61196736
SOC ID
15-2098
SOC Title
Data Scientists and Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other
ONET ID
15-2099.01
ONET Concat ID
15209901
Median Salary
107961.13
EMSI Interest Area Term
Life Sciences and Technologies
Physical Sciences and Technologies
Ed Level High School
0
Ed Level Certificate
0
Ed Level Some College
0
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
53.34
Ed Level Masters
40.66
Ed Level Doctors
6
Typical Ed Level
a Bachelor's degree
Career Description
Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.
Core Tasks
  • Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
  • Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
  • Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
  • Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
  • Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.
  • Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
  • Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
  • Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
  • Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.
  • Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.
  • Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
Start Annual Earnings
60541.26
Top Annual Earnings
188755.25
EMSI Career Title Slug
bioinformatics-technician