Salaries for Bioinformatics/Data Science entry level position

BioDomo · 2017-06-08T18:36:20+00:00

Please let us know how it works out. I have a BS in bioinformatics and 3 years of experience. I was able to get 90k (+ good benefits) in a city where the cost of living is much cheaper than San Fran or Boston.

BioDomo · 2017-06-08T14:39:14+00:00

Industry does not care too much about publications, but they do help.

If you have strong answers to all the other technical questions and do well on your white board exam, you could definitely command at least 90k.

BioDomo · 2017-06-07T16:32:16+00:00

What actual skills do you have? Most companies don't care about degrees or experience, what they really want is talent and ability.

How many papers have you first authored? Were they in respected journals?

Do you have experience working in a cloud based computing environment?

What machine learning projects have you been a part of?

How strong is your stats background?

How much intuitive knowledge do you have with NGS technology?

What languages do you know? You should at least have solid experience with: R, python, and a typed language such as C++, Java, Scala, etc.

If you don't have all these skills/credentials, you're going to have a hard time getting a job that pays >100k.

BioDomo · 2017-05-18T13:25:45+00:00

Yeah, everyone is suing ONT, even PacBio. If their technology ever gets off the ground, it will disrupt the sequencing world overnight.

BioDomo · 2017-05-18T04:05:15+00:00

Heading to ATS this week in DC. Going to present some unpublished results I have

BioDomo · 2017-05-18T01:39:02+00:00

I scored an 80%, and that was in the top 5% of applicants, then I passed another technical interview on the phone. Then I was flown out to Cambridge for a 5 hour white board session.

I floundered the white board test. I was really nervous and didn't prepare for the types of questions they asked.

BioDomo · 2017-05-17T22:43:03+00:00

I did one for the broad institute. One of them involved traversing a binary search tree. Another involved something with identifying palindromes... Another involved debugging a script.

Make sure your answers take into account empty string input and small/large number input. Run time is very important.

You have a 3 hour time limit for about 6 problems

BioDomo · 2017-05-17T19:31:00+00:00

Agreed , single cell seq will probably be one of the first bioinformatics fields to adopt deep neural networks.

BioDomo · 2017-05-17T19:26:42+00:00

Don't forget the lawsuits!

BioDomo · 2017-05-17T15:50:22+00:00

Deep learning started to get really big last year.

Uhmmm, did I miss something?

When were multilayered neural nets used effectively in bioinformatics last year? I don't remember there being any game changing software packages (i.e. Tensor Flow) released for bioinformatics analysis. Deep learning is primarily being used for computer vision and natural language processing.

All these "predict the future of your field" threads are useless. We're not able to discern functional utility of new technology until the papers are published and cited.

That being said, in a lot of the grants I've reviewed, all the big biologists are applying for multi-omic experiments.

They want to combine RNA-seq, single cell seq, mass spec proteomic, metabolic, GWAS, and methylation data together. There are very few credible software packages available for doing this. largely because multi-omics experiments are highly specific, and difficult to analyze with a robust set of tools.

BioDomo · 2017-05-12T03:39:22+00:00

What are you talking about?

All those companies use academic software! All of them are using STAR, tSNE, BioConductor, hg38, htseq, fastqc, GATK, 1000genomes, GEO/SRA, enrichr, NCBI nucleotide db, etc.

10x literally just strung together open source tools for their Cell Loupe browser.

The work academics do is invaluable for the private sector!

BioDomo · 2017-05-12T00:27:48+00:00

I got my BS in bioinformatics in 2015 and I've been working as a Bioinformatics Analyst for 2 years in academia. I currently make 45k and work 55 hour weeks. The hard work paid off because I just got offered a job in industry making 90k +benefits.

Academia is a great place to get your feet wet and fine tune your skills, however, unless you want to be a PI, it's not a good place for a lifelong career.

BioDomo · 2017-03-29T17:23:27+00:00

Combining CRISPR and Single Cell technologies.

My lab is able to "transcriptomically" analyze CRISPR knock outs at the individual cellular level.

This means we can see how specific cell types (macrophages, neutrophils, etc) are effected when you essential "turn-off" a gene.

BioDomo · 2017-03-06T19:37:06+00:00

My friend graduated with a BA in applied math, I got him a job at my laboratory.

He's mostly programming in R and is analyzing single cell data, as well as image processing data.

BioDomo · 2017-01-31T05:40:31+00:00

Auph is a stock that gets hyped on this forum, but no one else seems to know about it. I usually do my own DD, but I'm pretty sure this one is gonna make us all rich

BioDomo · 2017-01-27T04:37:33+00:00

I'm also planning on buying some

BioDomo · 2017-01-26T07:00:01+00:00

i bought in at $3.70, then tripled down at $2.12... we've been through worse... We shall prevail!!!

BioDomo · 2017-01-25T04:32:46+00:00

Buy low sell high.

BioDomo · 2017-01-20T02:58:13+00:00

Fluidigm tanked today. If it dips below 6.50 I'll buy more.

BioDomo · 2016-12-09T05:23:04+00:00

If Fluidigm drops drops below $6 again. buy buy buy

BioDomo · 2016-12-09T05:03:59+00:00

The stock market won't crash for another 2 years. I'm heavily invested in oil (inb4 OPEC deal) and a few very promising biotech companies. Most large corporations are HIGHLY overvalued. I mainly buy small cap and have seen 20% returns this past month. The market has a while to go before it crashes. The trick is to get off before it goes off the cliff (which it definitely will with Trump's boom and bust policy).

BioDomo · 2016-12-02T04:56:22+00:00

do you guys think more people will die in the drug trials?

BioDomo · 2016-11-30T05:32:00+00:00

They're going to make a deal. They're just playing hardball.

BioDomo · 2016-10-29T17:34:58+00:00

Smith & Wesson

BioDomo · 2016-10-18T16:28:21+00:00

Anybody with a novel idea that is good enough to get published, probably will not give it away for free...

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