Data Scientist NIHR BioResource (Fixed Term)

We are recruiting a Data Scientist to provide data to researchers in academia and industry, through cohort discovery by mining phenotypic and genomic data, and to manage metadata assets of the NIHR Bio

Resource projects under the guidance of the line manager. To succeed in this role, you will need to be experienced in the manipulation of big and/or genomics data, the analysis and integration of different data types and the use of meta-data standards and vocabularies. About NIHR Bio

Resource: Our mission is to facilitate human health research and its transformation into medical practice. NIHR Bio

Resource is a unique and powerful resource for studying disease mechanisms and for investigating the links between genes, the environment, health and disease, enabling scientific discoveries as well as facilitating translational medicine for the benefit of patients. Further details on the NIHR Bio

Resource, including some of our COVID-19 research studies, can be found on our website [link] . About the job: You will be responsible for: Linking of omics data (especially genomics) and biomedical, demographic, and phenotypic data that form a major part of NIHR Bio

Resource data assets to enable participant selection for proposed research studies Contribute to more complex linkage experiments, e.g. where omics data is joined to sample holdings and rich clinical phenotype Prepare datasets for recall-based research studies identifying potential volunteers Prepare de-identi