Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking an experienced individual to work as a Bioinformatics Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
This is a long-term contract position which offers:

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package

Optional health, vision, and dental plans

Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan.

Access to NIH's unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives

TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall:

Develop and maintain whole-genome and exome variant calling methodologies in support of gene discovery, gene therapy, model systems, and related clinical research projects within the Organic Acid Research (OAR) and Metabolism, Infection and Immunity (MINI) Sections.

Provide broad-based programming and analytic support for a wide variety of bioinformatic and genomic research projects, including the development of software pipelines for the processing and high-level analysis of next-generation sequence data, including ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, Methyl-seq, RNA-seq data, and AAV integration analyses in the OAR and MINI Sections.

Work with the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) and Bioinformatics Core on the analysis and visualization of data derived from emerging sequencing methodologies.

Interact with scientists in the OAR and MINI Sections to assess their needs with respect to massive (terabyte-sized) data sets; develop concrete and tractable project plans for completing these projects.

Write portions of scientific manuscripts; present data in seminars and poster sessions.

Collaborate with staff on teaching activities, in both small- and large-group fora.

Provide support and training to laboratory bioinformatics trainees with regards to developing new pipelines for the analysis of high-throughput data and the optimization of code for use in supercomputing environments.

Provide detailed project documentation so that all methodologies can be reproduced and applied to similar studies in the future.

REQUIREMENTS. The contractor must have:

Master's degree in a science related field. Three (3) years of specialized experience plus a BA/BS degree is equivalent to a Master's degree.

Minimum of two (2) years of experience in a related field.

Relevant bioinformatics experience, including demonstrated experience in running the GATK pipeline to call sequence variants and building warehouses to store, query, and display the resulting genotypes.

Demonstrated experience programming in Perl, Python or an equivalent scripting language.

Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying applications on UNIX or Linux platforms in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment.

Knowledge and experience with full-stack web application development, particularly using MongoDB, Python (Flask framework), and javascript (React, jquery).

Knowledge and demonstrated experience analyzing other types of next-generation sequencing data, (e.g., RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, or related data).

Demonstrated success in sharing scientific information, through the writing of scientific manuscripts and the oral presentation of data in seminars and poster sessions.

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