Thursday, January 29, 2015

Recommendations On Getting A Job In BioInformatics

Here are some tips from people in the bioinformatics field if you are interested in a job:

  • Show you can program (post good, neat, accurate working code on Github)
  • Show some basic ability such as:
    • Write a script to count the number of occurrences of each different sequence
    • Ingest a data file into, remove the lines with all zeros, make a scatterplot of the a handful of the columns
  • Learn python (or ruby) and R

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