[Cugapost] EPA Toxicity Database Support - Pre-Doctoral Level - Hiring NOW!

[Lorelei Chopard]

Toxicity Reference Database Support at EPA

The EPA Environmental Research and Business Support Program has an 
immediate opening for a Toxicity Reference Database Support position 
with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA's Research 
Triangle facility in Raleigh-Durham, NC. The selected candidate will 
provide data management, data curation and data analysis support to the 
ToxRefDB project. This is a combination of MySQL database management, 
NoSQL solutions, file management, data curation and extraction, quality 
control, as well as performing qualitative and quantitative data 
analysis. He/she will also be working with a number of heterogeneous 
toxicological datasets from other projects including ToxCast and Tox21. 
He/she will also work with ontologies for mapping biological concepts 
across resources.

* Full time, $33.37/hour

* Must be pursuing a PhD degree in biology, toxicology, chemistry, 
bioinformatics, statistics, computational biology, math, physics, 
information science, or a closely related field of study from an 
accredited university or college within the last 24 months

* Demonstrated education and/or experience in toxicology and/or biology

* Demonstrated education and/or experience in data mining

* A working knowledge of publicly available biological and chemical 
database resources including those managed by National Center for 
Biomedical Information (NCBI) and European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

* A working knowledge of in vivo toxicology studies

* A working knowledge of relational databases

* R-language or Python programming (or other scripting language) 
experience.

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