Bioinformatics Analyst Interview Questions
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Can you manipulate bclfastq files?
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I described the pipeline I constructed.
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lots of script can do bclfastq, why ask this question?
what data structures do you use in C?
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The role doesn't involve C programming.
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it had been a while to coding in C, but could pull up some basic ones.
Given a set of XY pairs I want to create a data structure such that searching, insertion and deletion is extremely fast using the X value. But I also want to be able to find the maximum Y value at any given time. What data structure would you use for this problem? How would you keep track of the maximum Y value? This Y value can also get deleted during the process.
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Still looking :)
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Max Heap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(data_structure)
Do you feel you would fit in a culture of rapid-change?
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What do you know about linkage disequilibrium and it's affect on human genetic disease?
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Do they request college transcripts? Or is a proof of degree acceptable?
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Sounds complicated, but extremely interesting! Did I mention I'm a software guy?
Why should we choose you?
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Suppose that we have 10 red marbles and 10 black marbles and two bags and we will pick one marble from each of them. How can we arrange the marbles in the bag such that thw probability that both of the marbles that we pick from bags are red, being maximized? Less
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Only put the red ones in the bags.
how do u update their flat seq files on a daily base?
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don't plug in your bioperl or db programming here.
Hypothetical - Say you had an appointment scheduled for right after work that you could not miss, but day of your boss really needs you to stay late to finish up a project, what do you do?
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It depends. If the project is meeting its final deadline and very important, then I would stay and finish this first. The appointment can be rescheduled anyway. Or, if I must need to have this appointment, I would do the appointment as fast as I can, then come back to finish the project before midnight. Less