Bioinformatics Careers

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Bioinformatics Careers
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Bioinformatics as a Career

• Computational Biology (Computer Science)
• Systems Biology (Mathematics)
• Informatics (Computer Science)

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Bioinformatics for Everyone

• Bioscience employers now expect that their
  employees can use a standard set of bioinformatic
  tools
• Knowledge of word processing and spread sheets is
  considered an ordinary job skill now-a-days
• The same goes for editing, matching and
  retrieving, and aligning sequence data in biology

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Bioinformatics Field Transforming

• Job market for Bioinformaticians was down
  between 2002 and 2006
• Pharmaceutical and biotechnology expansion
  paused.
• Too many programs and they were designed by
  biologists tools had been developed
• But

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Job Prospects Looking Up Again Bioinformatics
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Many Companies are Advertising Again
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Computational Biology
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Systems Biology
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How do you prepare your students?

• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Computer Science
• Love for Biology and asking the right questions
• Physics
• Chemistry

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