What is a bioinformatician | blog.fejes.ca. I’ve been participating in an interesting conversation on linkedin, which has re-opened the age old question of what is a bioinformatician, which was inspired by a conversation on twitter, that was later blogged. Hopefully I’ve gotten that chain down correctly. In any case, it appears that there are two competing schools of thought. One is that bioinformatician is a distinct entity, and the other is that it’s a vague term that embraces anyone and anything that has to do with either biology or computer science.
Frankly, I feel the second definition is a waste of a perfectly good word, despite being a commonly accepted method. That leads me to the following two illustrations. How bioinformatics is often used, and I would argue that it’s being used incorrectly And how it should be used, according to me: I think the second clearly describes something that just isn’t captured otherwise. Trouver un emploi/une thèse en bioinformatique : quelques pistes. Parmi les lecteurs de Bioinfo-fr, il y a très probablement des étudiants de M2 qui, absorbés par leur stage de fin d'année, n'ont pas encore vraiment réfléchi à ce qu'ils voudraient faire à la rentrée ; des thésards dont la soutenance approche et qui aimeraient faire un post-doc à l'étranger ; ou encore des ingénieurs dont le CDD touche à sa fin et qui sont à la recherche d'un autre emploi.
Pour les aider dans leur quête du Graal, j'ai compilé dans cet article plusieurs sites et listes de diffusion proposant des offres de stage/thèse/postdoc/emploi en bioinformatique. Cette liste étant loin d'être exhaustive, je vous invite vivement à la compléter en commentaire. Les sites ou listes de diffusion spécialisés pour la bioinfo : Vous pouvez également souscrire à ces listes de diffusion pour recevoir des offres d'emploi (et également des informations sur des conférences à venir) : Les sites non spécialisés : Les réseaux sociaux : Crédit image : Photo libre de droit (Source) An Explosion Of Bioinformatics Careers. Big data is everywhere, and its influence and practical omnipresence across multiple industries will just continue to grow. For life scientists with expertise and an interest in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, and related skill sets, the job outlook couldn’t be rosier.
Big pharma, biotech, and software companies are clamoring to hire professionals with experience in bioinformatics and the identification, compilation, analysis, and visualization of huge amounts of biological and health care information. With the rapid development of new tools to make sense of life science research and outcomes, spurred by innovative research in bioinformatics itself, scientists who are entranced by data can pursue more career options than ever before.
By Alaina G. Levine Today’s bioinformaticists are in for a real treat. W. And what an immense amount of data it is, due in part to a paradigm shift in the field, from data generation to data analysis, says W. Discovering Where the Careers Are. Frontiers | Who qualifies to be a bioinformatician? | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The Bioinformatics Like microscopes and thermal cyclers, computers are routinely used in many laboratories. Bioinformatics is a recent scientific discipline that has undergone strong and rapid progression and evolution (Ouzounis, 2012). The use of bioinformatics analyses in biological studies in fields as diverse as metagenomics (Hurwitz et al., 2014) and infectious diseases (Gire et al., 2014) is now accepted and viewed as normal. As mentioned in PLoS computational biology by Hogeweg (2011), the first time the term “bioinformatics” was used was in 1970 in a Dutch article. At the time, bioinformatics referred to “the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.”
Since then, bioinformatics has gradually carved out a place for itself in the scientific community with, for example, the creation in 1985 of CABIOS (Computer Applications in the Biosciences), which is now known as Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). To attempt to answer this question, let us start with a simple observation. Bio-informaticien(ne)