Summary
United Arab Emirates University is seeking a Junior Bioinformatics Research Associate to support animal and poultry genomics projects. The role includes sequencing quality control, alignment, variant calling, GWAS workflows, and genotype–phenotype association analyses. The associate will prepare summary statistics and visualizations, maintain scripts and documentation, and support research associates with data interpretation. Applicants need a Ph.D. or MSc in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field, with working knowledge of Python or R; familiarity with genomics tools is preferred.
The posting
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Job description
Provides computational support to animal and poultry genomics projects, focusing on data processing, GWAS pipelines, and basic downstream analyses.
Minimum qualification
- Ph.D/MSc in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
- Working knowledge of Python or R.
- Familiarity with genomics tools is preferred.
Expected skills
- Perform sequencing QC, alignment, and variant calling.
- Assist with GWAS and genotype–phenotype association workflows.
- Generate summary statistics, plots, and basic visualizations.
- Maintain scripts and documentation.
- Support Research Associates with data interpretation.
Department
Khalifa Cntr.Biotech.&Genetic Eng.