[BioEdu] What kind of programming skills should a bioinformatician have?

[fitri.amelia at ui.edu]

Dear Mr. Erwin

I've graduated my master program in bioinformatics field. I think you just
1) know what you wanna do? If you wanna try to design vaccine, what kind
of vaccine do you want? DNA or protein, then what is the step? if you have
known the proces, you just search in web. Example: your first step is
amplification you DNA, it means you'll work in PCR and you need primer. So
you should try to find the software that can find the primer.
2) if you don't familiar in using software, you can read "help" in each
software


you can explain clearly your objective, may be I know the software that
appropriate with your objective.


My field is Medical bioinformatics


Regard,

Fitri Amelia




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> Dear everyone,
>
> Hi, my name is Erwin. I would like to know where I can learn some good
> programming skills for bioinformatics. I have an M.Sc. degree in
> bioinformatics, and I learned some Perl and Java in my graduate study, but
> I don’t feel that I have the ability to be a good bioinformatician yet. I
> came from chemistry background and I did not use any programming in my
> graduate thesis.
>
> I’d like to pursue a Ph.D. study but I notice that most (or all) of the
> Ph.D. opportunities in bioinformatics require either “a strong programming
> background” or “experience in software development”, which I have none.
> Now I would like to improve my programming skills before applying for a
> Ph.D. studentship. Do you have any recommendations on what kind of
> education I should take to do that? Your answers will be much appreciated.
> Thank you.
>
> Yours,
> Erwin
>
>
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