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Septembris 7., 2007

10:05
Stein has some simple advice for how you make it in bioinformatics:

1. Learn biology. Investigate the problem domain for bioinformatics.
2. Pick a problem that interests you. Don't just follow where you think the hot topic is or what seems to be an easy problem. Consider what you are willing to spend the next decade or two or the rest of your life working on.
3. Know your tools. Don't treat your tools as black boxes. Understand how they work and what their limitations are. With a microscope you don't need to know optics, but you should know something about light paths, magnification, and resolution. Don't be afraid to use non-computer tools. Don't find the problems that fit your tools.
4. Don't be ghettoized. If you expect to be a scientist and to be doing research then don't come in just to perform services to apply your tools to other people's problems. If you want to write software and provide a service, that's great but do so deliberately.
5. Do it because you love it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/biocon2003/stein.html

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