bioinformatics scientist

Job Zone

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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed

Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order

• I Investigative7.00
• C Conventional5.04
• R Realistic3.81
• A Artistic2.51
• S Social1.64
• E Enterprising1.26

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Bioinformatics Scientists (19-1029.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (56)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• analyse scientific data
• apply for research funding
• apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
• apply scientific methods
• apply statistical analysis techniques
• assist scientific research
• biology
• collect biological data
• communicate with a non-scientific audience
• computational biology
• computational chemistry
• computer engineering
• computer equipment
• computer programming
• conduct quantitative research
• conduct research across disciplines
• contact scientists
• database management systems
• demonstrate disciplinary expertise
• develop professional network with researchers and scientists
• disseminate results to the scientific community
• draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
• evaluate research activities
• gather data
• genomics
• increase the impact of science on policy and society
• integrate gender dimension in research
• interact professionally in research and professional environments
• interpret current data
• laboratory techniques
• life sciences
• maintain freelance database
• manage database
• manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
• manage intellectual property rights
• manage open publications
• manage personal professional development
• manage research data
• mentor individuals
• operate open source software
• perform data analysis
• perform project management
• perform scientific research
• present reports
• promote open innovation in research
• promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
• promote the transfer of knowledge
• publish academic research
• scientific literature
• speak different languages
• statistics
• synthesise information
• think abstractly
• use databases
• web programming
• write scientific publications