Will AI replace Bioinformatics Technicians?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
62/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 94% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 43% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 95% of the work
What the job involves
Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(9)
- Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
- Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
- Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.
- Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.
- Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.
and 4 more
Within reach(9)
- Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
- Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
- Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
- Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
and 4 more
Out of reach(1)
- Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
Also called
Bioinformatics Specialist · Biocurator · Bioinformatics Analyst · Bioinformatics Data Analyst · Biotechnician · Research Scientist · Research Specialist · Scientific Informatics Analyst
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics