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Marine Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Teacher Enhancement Program at Moss Landing Marine Labs. Bioinformatics Careers. Bioinformatics as a Career. Computational Biology (Computer Science) Systems Biology (Mathematics) Informatics (Computer Science). Bioinformatics for Everyone.
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MarineBiotechnologyandBioinformatics Teacher Enhancement Program at Moss Landing Marine Labs Bioinformatics Careers
Bioinformatics as a Career • Computational Biology (Computer Science) • Systems Biology (Mathematics) • Informatics (Computer Science)
Bioinformatics for Everyone • Bioscience employers now expect that their employees can use a standard set of bioinformatic tools • Knowledge of word processing and spread sheets is considered an ordinary job skill now-a-days • The same goes for editing, matching and retrieving, and aligning sequence data in biology
Bioinformatics Field Transforming • Job market for “Bioinformaticians” was down between 2002 and 2006… • Pharmaceutical and biotechnology expansion “paused.” • Too many programs… and they were designed by biologists… tools had been developed… • But…
Job Prospects Looking Up Again… Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Systems Biology
How do you prepare your students? • Mathematics • Statistics • Computer Science • Love for Biology and asking the right questions… • Physics • Chemistry