Our client, a Biopharmaceutical company, is looking for a Bioinformatics Engineer for their Foster City, CA location. Responsibilities:

+ Bioinformatics Engineer role to deliver telomere to telomere (T2T) reference genomes for non model organisms by building and operating long read assembly and curation pipelines using PacBio HiFi and/or Oxford Nanopore, with complementary data (Hi C/Omni C, Strand seq, optical maps, short reads) as needed.

+ Partner with wet lab and computational teams to troubleshoot complex genomes (polyploidy, high heterozygosity, repeats) and package results for internal and external release.

+ Plan assembly approaches for non model organisms (data QC, genome profiling, contamination screening, coverage targets) and advise sequencing strategy.

+ Run and iterate long read assemblies and consensus refinement (e.g., hifiasm/Verkko/Flye/Canu; polishing as appropriate) toward chromosome scale, T2T quality results.

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