Hi, everyone. I know that I've asked lots of, in some way, stupid question, sorry for that. The next one can be a bit boring and has a bit reflection. I'm thinking about how can I say that what I'm really doing is bioinformatics? I mean, I'm 23, work in IT sphere, have been developing web-sites etc., now I'm helping biologist to deal with bioinformatics files and bio programming libraries trying to automate their work. Can I say that I do bioinformatics or just programming? Where is the edge? What I should know to treat yourself as bioinformatician? And the second question is what are the main types of questions or issues modern bioinformatics has? I know that's a huge and broad field, but I'm just trying to get sorted and draw a picture of "land of bioinformatics".
Thanks a lot
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Here is my adaption based on the blog post by Anthony Fejes: Who is a bioinformatician?
What is a Biostar?
Based on this chart, I qualify as being a bioinfromatician. :) Good to know.
Dear dshulgin, Hi
In my idea, in an official manner; a bioinformatic scientist is a person who has passed university courses related to bioinformatics (some Biology related courses , e.g genetic, biology, biochemistry and . . . and some Computer science/programming courses).
Some people suggest that this science is more biological than computer related (hence it begin with Bio- not Informatic),
Of course my experiences have shown that the people with the computer science/programming background are playing in this field in a shortcut way - and are more successful (than biologists) - even without having any idea about what really is happening in the body of living organisms at the cellular or molecular levels!
~ Good Luck
I think many many bioinformatic scientist have an educational background in either bio-sciences or computer sciences, rarely both, and during their career learned the other half.
people with the computer science/programming background are playing in this field in a shortcut way - and are more successful (than biologists)
I agree but I think that might be a temporary situation - our understanding and the software that we have at our disposal are rudimentary and can only be operated with a sysadmin, devops or other comp-sci background - we also do not understand well what we need to handle.
Twenty years ago the ability of writing a Hello World in Basic was considered an employable skill - today not so much.
Dear Istvan, Hi.
I remember that "Basic language Hello World" programming era, too.
I had one of these (What was is really ?) and use it for programming. ;-)
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did you write a program to convert a file to another format ? you're a bioinformatician ;-P
lol, i really like your attitude, but i'm serious. self-identification questions eat me, that's why i'm trying to get the answers from other people.
Why?
You can call yourself a bioinformatician. I don't mind. It is what you know that will matter at the end rather than a title.
Thanks man. Anything about "map" of bioinformatics?
:-)
(...)You are a bioinformatician if you googled for
stringand expected the protein interaction database.