deanne at density.biop.umich.edu wrote: > > I've also been looking for jobs in bioinformatics (which is how I found > you guys, btw, which was a nice coincidence). I have an interview at > Harvard Medical School as a research computing scientist in > bioinformatics Definitely come (I live there) to Boston! It's becoming Bioinformatics Central, as evidenced by Gary's arrival next year ;-) > 4) It's hard to convince anyone in bioinformatics industry/academia that > if you haven't been a bioinformatics graduate student but have had all the > relevant experience, that you can "do this". Which is kind of silly. Tell me about it. As if there are sooooo many Ph.D. programs in bioinformatics out there! Personally, I think computer skills are more important than having a pure (non biochem or biophysics) background. You usually focus on a single biological problem in bioinformatics, so there can be less biology to learn than computing/programming. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+