US-MA-Cambridge: Sr Scientist, Research Informatics

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Date: 03-Jan-2008

Sr Scientist, Research Informatics

The position will encompass the following responsibilities:

- Work in collaboration with the Discovery Research teams in managing information from small molecule data streams such as compound profiling (in vitro screening), pharmacology (PK, and efficacy), and pre-clinical (ADME and toxicity data ).

- Provide support to medicinal chemistry and compound profiling teams to manage compound registration and facilitate assay data analysis using commercial and custom applications.

- Provide hands-on expert assistance and support on the use of appropriate tools to display, analyze and visualize small molecule results data.

- Coordinate data exchange with external collaborators for Small Molecule projects.

- Actively promote adoption and continued use of licensed commercial applications .

- Continuously improve, update, and apply new skills to keep pace with prevailing industry trends and new technologies related to Small Molecule data management. Qualifications - Familiar with chemical structure storage, manipulation, and presentation.

- Familiar with assay data management and tools to support biological data curation.

- Familiar with Unix/Linux Operating environments.

- Experience using ORACLE database environments

- Proficient with system level script writing in one or more of the following programming languages ( C++, C#, Perl, Python, or JAVA ).

- Ability to support user environment with a mix of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems.

- Excellent communications and customer service skills.

- Proven problem solving/troubleshooting skills.

- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

- Proficient in selection, implementation, and configuration of applications in the Small Molecule space.

- A familiarity with the following software applications or technology areas is preferred: Cambridgesoft ChemOffice Suite various MDL Software ChemSW CisPro Accelrys Accord Enterprise Suite Symyx Chemistry eNotebooks Spotfire Scitegic Pipeline Pilot Education MS or BS degree with 6 or more years of management experience in Chemistry or Computer Science supporting scientists in the biotech/pharma industry.

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