Bioinformatician in Infectious Diseases

Support the bioinformatics for translation of nanopore metagenomics assays into pilot clinical services. This includes sequencing of bacteria, fungi and viruses and a particularly focus on respiratory infections including SARS-CoV-2, other coronaviruses and influenza To provide bioinformatics support for developmental projects evaluating high throughput real time targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses of public health and infection control significance Support the development and maintenance of analysis pipelines currently implemented in clinical service delivery across the NHS network, including deployinga strategy for updating methods ofpipeline delivery, with particular reference to ensuring service continuity and improvement Please see the supporting documentation for a full Job Description and Person Specification.