🧵 Bioinformatics
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 12:52:10 UTC No. 16167252
I am persuing a master's in bioinformatics and will do a PhD. once I graduate. Is this field any good? I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences. I gained experience working with MATLAB, python and R. Really good at mathematical analysis as well as biochem, genetics and molecular biology. It was hell pushing through all this but I did it and I'm proud so I just hope it will pay off atleast a bit. My thesis revolves around applying statistical algorithms to simulate CRISPR dynamics.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 13:37:22 UTC No. 16167332
PhDs are always risky in terms of employment. Most managers don't have PhDs, which might be a problem.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 13:56:55 UTC No. 16167352
>>16167252
>Is this field any good?
Not really. It's not as much of an interdisciplinary field as your pic suggests. Basically it's just biochem people who also know some programming.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 13:58:29 UTC No. 16167353
>>16167252
Oh I'm planning on going after a masters in Bioinformatics myself. Any good site suggestion or books that you would recommend?
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 15:42:22 UTC No. 16167484
>>16167353
Check this guy's website in the description:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BSn
This covers all the basics in python:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list
Also learn the basics of MATLAB, it is well documented online.
On the book side of things I would recommend books such as calculus in biology and medicine, Philip Nelson's physical models of organic systems and a students guide to bayesian statistics. It really depends on your mentor and department but atleast some of this might be helpful for you.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 15:49:13 UTC No. 16167494
>>16167484
>anon delivers
Yooo thanks. Best of luck with the rest of your masters. As worthless as this may sound as someone who isn't in the field, every lab is looking for a bioinformatician, the pay isn't that great I hear, but job security should be decent.
The stuff that I used when I was was https://www.biostarhandbook.com/
It's pretty good, but I always need something more.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 17:17:14 UTC No. 16167627
I'm in bioinfo and I fucking hate it every single day. Everyone around me is doing single cell RNA seq nextflow docker shit makes me puke when I hear that s oy nonsense. Luckily I do something different
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 17:53:16 UTC No. 16167672
>>16167252
Kek at the picrel. Is there anything you mighty bio-codemonkeys not able to do?
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 18:13:55 UTC No. 16167701
>>16167672
Settle down ok?
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 19:49:36 UTC No. 16167849
>>16167672
everything, if actual in depth knowledge counts
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 21:18:27 UTC No. 16167971
>>16167849
midwittery language lmao
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 21:30:20 UTC No. 16167986
>>16167252
> "Really good at [...] biochem"
I hope you know how enzymes work, anon
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 21:43:47 UTC No. 16168012
>>15833839
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Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 23:47:00 UTC No. 16168171
>>16167252
I hope you are ready to be a fraud.