A quick talk on "Working with Bioinformatics"
Folks, a quick talk about working with bioinformatics. Bioinformatics job profiles is a gradient. In one extreme, there's the developers of bioinformatics tools. In the other extreme, there are the users of bioinformatics tools. In both cases you need to have a good knowledge of biology, specially of genetics and biochemistry. It's important to note that the "users" profile is mainly related to the use of webservers and desktop software. But keep in mind, it's a gradient, so there are multiple and varied mixes of these two extremes. Despite all the profiles are devoted to answer a biological question at some extent, "user" profiles will be directly involved at it, while "developer" profiles will be aimed at proposing solutions that help to solve many instances of a same problem class. Because of that, the best way (in my opinion) to start on bioinformatics and find your way is at the middle of the gradient, the so called "bioinformatics sc...