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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

What data are you going to bioinform yourself on, bioinformist?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This only shows how ignorant on bioinformatic analyses is whoever listed two items on the left. Without effort, I can say... git, bash, python, R-lang, alignment algorithms, UMAP, clustering algorithms, snakemake, nextflow, slurm, amazon web services, google cloud platform, conda, heuristics, more algorithms, deep learning, machine learning, imputing missing values, frequentist statistics, parametric or not, bayesian statistics, mmm.. Ok, point given.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

So... A single computer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, and just to be clear. The whole idea of separating the two fields is plain wrong. There's a lot of workers that do both. And, if there's any worker that only does 1 discipline, it's likely working in a team with at least 1 person doing the other...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is the picture on the right genuine? Asking seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In terms of lab equipment I can say that the right side list is about 1.5 labs' worth of tech

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

No it is not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, very much no

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Too bad, I like the style

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where do I get a job in bioinformatics? Now that AI hype is on the way out (and I missed it) my best guess is that it will be the next big thing. And unlike LLMs it's actually interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Largely with research universities. Also trying to on pursuing a career in that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

good luck aligning 50 x 20mil sequences in a 10 year old laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Can relate