The Bioinformatician II partners with researchers/biologists from the Mount Sinai Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences on innovative genomic analyses of structural variation, epigenetics, and gene expression in an integrated environment combining experimental and bioinformatic approaches to human disease. S/he leads a variety of projects and gains exposure to many productive areas of research, and develops/supports multiple research projects by delivering bioinformatics services for bio-medical data from cutting-edge genomic technologies.
This incumbent performs the role of database developer for Varimpact, building a comprehensive impact database of genetic variants through text mining.
This database consists of genetic variants with gene, protein, pathway, cellular, drug level functional impact and is a tool to search and highlight genetic variants, drugs and diseases in 30 million abstracts and 3 million full texts.
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