"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > 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. "Pure" biologists are such snobs when it comes to the allied fields. I can attest to that in my many failed attempts to cross over from chemistry. But don't get me going on that...I want to keep people ON this list :-) Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+