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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 00:45:37 +0800
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A biocryptoanarchy link to Adleman's DNA work?
6-8-96. FiTi:
"Bioinformatics: the jobs of the future."
One of the biggest manpower shortages today is in
bioinformatics, the area in which biology meets computer
science. Biology is becoming a data-intensive science,
in the same way that physics did almost 50 years ago
when it became clear that computers would be needed not
only to store information but also to process it.
There's a great shortage of people, partly because a
lot of organisations are simultaneously seeing the need
for bioinformatics and partly because the skills
required are changing so fast:
+ Search and analysis, including new mathematical
techniques for finding patterns in data;
+ Knowledge management, including ways to integrate
information from different databases;
+ Mapping and genomics, including approaches to
identifying the genetic components of complex traits;
+ Sequence/structure/function including rapid methods to
predict the biological function of a gene from its DNA.
The mainstream computer and information technology
companies are only just beginning to take an interest in
bioinformatics. "There's a huge vacuum there." For an
undergraduate scientist searching for a field in which
to specialise, there are no better job prospects than
bioinformatics or - cheminformatics.
BIO_nfo
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