Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

• Recommending new systems and processes for improving operations.
• Keeping abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
• Conferring with departments, such as marketing, business development, or operations, for coordinating product development or improvement.
• Collaborating with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
• Testing new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
• Providing statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities, such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, or gene function determination.
• Preparing summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
• Instructing others in the selection and using of bioinformatics tools.
• Improving user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.