[BioEdu] Re: Forward of moderated message

[Kevin Karplus]

One doesn't have to have a thesis topic already selected, but it helps
to know whether you are interested in protein structure, DNA
microarrays, phylogenetics trees, disease associations of genes,
ancestral genome reconstruction, cell modeling, regulatory networks,
synthetic biology, or some of the many other branches of
bioinformatics, as no place can do them all.  Once you have identified
5 topics that seem particularly interesting to you, find out the top 3
or 4 places where each is done.  Places that do more things that
interest you should be higher on your priority list, as you are
actually somewhat unlikely to end up where your interest is first
caught.

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Kevin Karplus 	karplus at soe.ucsc.edu	http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics
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