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

Interesting Areas: Quantum Biology

Youtube Talk: Jim Al-Khalili - Quantum Life: How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology

Presentations On Quantum Biology (more formal physics)

Theoretical and Computation BioPhysics Research at UIUC

BioCurious.Org Community Project: Build Quantum Salinity Detector

Intro to BioInformatics

Rosalind is a great place to start to learn python and eventually work through actual bioinformatics problems

In addition, there is a free Coursera course by one of the professors.

Plus, some publicly available genome datasets and tools:

• UCSC Public DataSets
• Amazone Web Services Datasets
• Craig Venters Genome Database
• Python Tool For Manipulating Genome Datasets
• Web App Tool That Will Create Graphs Automatically From BioInformatics Files

Tutorials For Basic Tools Used in Analytics

R (open source statistical package)

• Free CodeSchool Beginner Basics

SQL (data access tool)

• Free Intro Coursera Course

PHP (web display and dashboarding)

• Free Codecademy Course

Python (back-end data manipulation)

• Free Codecademy Course

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