Scientist (Bioinformatician)

1 week ago

Singapore SFA Singapore Food Agency Full time

Be part of the innovation driving Singapore’s food safety. The Biological Research team under the Research & Exposure Science Department (RESD) develops and deploying advanced food safety research and testing capabilities to address evolving foodborne hazards. Join us in fulfilling SFA’s mission of ensuring and securing a supply of safe food for Singapore.

**Duties**:
Officer will be expected to:

- Conduct applied biological and microbiological research, identify problem statements, generate research hypotheses, recommend technology-based solutions, and/or determine computational strategies, in support of the agency’s food safety operations, risk assessment and policies
- Perform integrative analysis on high throughput sequencing datasets related to food microbiology (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics)
- Conduct phylogenetic and statistical inference to obtain biological insights from big genomic data
- Develop and implement bioinformatics pipelines for workflow automation
- Build models and classifiers for predictive analytics
- Develop and maintain databases for cataloguing large microbial genomic datasets
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, project reports that may be catered for different audience e.g. academia, scientists, policy makers and the general public
- Organise and maintain proper documentation of research data, scientific interpretations, and project proposals
- Provide basic bioinformatics training for in-house microbiologists
- Perform administrative support work such as procurement and preparation of research grants

**Requirements**:

- BSc, MSc or PhD in computational biology, biological sciences, computer science, or other relevant disciplines
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience in computer programming and/or genomics analysis (WGS and metagenomics)
- Familiarity with Illumina and/or Nanopore sequencing data analysis.
- Experience with various sequence mapping, variant calling and genome assembly tools
- Knowledge in scripting bioinformatics pipelines (Nextflow/Snakemake)
- Strong programming and debugging skills, preferably with experience in Python and R.
- Comfortable with High-Performance/Cloud computing and able to learn new programming languages and paradigms with mínimal guidance
- Basic understanding of food microbiology, molecular biology, and epidemiology
- Knowledge in microbiome and/or microbial genetics would be an advantage.
- Possess peer-reviewed scientific publications in bioinformatics and/or microbiology
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and collaborative skills
- Resilience and ability to multi-task

**Other Information**:

- **Work Location**:National Centre for Food Science, Techquest, 7 International Business Park, Singapore 609919

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