Position title: Genome Informatician

Employer: SA Pathology - Statewide Clinical Support Services

Closing date: 9th March 2021

Brief position description: - Contributes to the development of analysis pipelines for application to infectious diseases
- Contributes to the delivery of high-throughput microbial genomic testing technologies as part of the public health response to outbreaks and surveillance due to infectious diseases.
- Maintaining microbial genomic analysis pipelines for diagnostic and public health applications.
- Understanding and experience in phylogenomic analysis

Contributes to the delivery of NGS testing by:
- Identifying, evaluating and implementing software solutions for data analysis
- Automating NGS data analysis pipelines
- Maintaining currency of annotation resources
- Maintaining database of sequence variants
- Applying specialist knowledge of genome analysis to perform analysis of next-generation sequencing data
- Education and training of other staff within the MID directorate in the use of software tools and data analysis pipelines

Job website: http://careers.pageuppeople.com/532/caw/en/job/748898/genome-informatician

Contact name: Lex Leong

Contact email: lex.leong@sa.gov.au