It's a bit of a long shot to think that someone would be on a general freelancing site looking for a next-gen sequencing analyst, but believe it or not, it's happened before! I do both software and basic paired genome analysis. I recently left the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, where I worked for six years as a scientific programmer and bioinformatics analyst in the cancer genomics group. I presided over the maintenance and running of our whole-exome and whole-genome tumor-vs-normal cancer analysis pipelines, with broad exposure to the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) data and methods. Aside from TCGA work, I was involved more closely with local collaborations involving head-and-neck and various non-basal-cell skin cancers. I've moved on from the HGSC because my first scientific love is actually ecology and evolution, and I'm trying to retool my sequencing and genetics knowledge for that field. Toward that goal, I've learned a little about RAD-Tag sequencing and working with FASTQ data for organisms that have no reference sequence. From a technical skills perspective, I'm a Bash/Unix programmer who is experienced with installing odd bits of open-source genomics software and getting data to run through them. On the scientific end, my only degree is a BA in biology, but my scientific experience to date has been highly specialized and concentrated. My publications list is entirely as a hanger-on, not ever as a PI, but it covers some fairly exciting big-science ground: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Yo5yGi4AAAAJ&hl=en I figure I have perhaps another year before my knowledge of the field becomes entirely stale! If I can help you with your informatics needs, please do let me know.