Creating a picture of different careers in bioinformatics
July 1st, 2008When I wrote a post about my opinion of doing a career in bioinformatics I got the impression from the comments that this was something many people wanted more information about. Pedro and I had some discussion, and thought it might be interesting to create an online survey, to get current researchers’ opinions of working in the field of bioinformatics. So, the below survey begins today (July 1) and is filled out by as many people as possible over the course the next month. The data is then released into the public domain at the start of next month (August 1). Anyone who is then interested can contribute back analysis of this data, so that on September 1 hopefully we can compile together lots of interesting statistics and graphs into a handy document discussing the highs and lows of career in bioinformatics.
If you’d like to embed this form in your own webpage or blog, using the following HTML.
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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July 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 am
[...] Just in case you haven’t seen the post at multiple other locations: Mike is running a bioinformatics career survey over at his blog. It won’t take more than 5 minutes to answer and should provide an [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:43 am
Maybe you can change the ‘Matlab’ option to ‘Matlab/Octave’.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
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July 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
no comment
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 am
So where does molecular modeling (molecular-dynamics simulations) fall in? Or at all?
July 4th, 2008 at 1:50 am
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
It’s good to the person is doing the survey for the Bioinformatics as a different field.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Bosco, I think molecular simulations would come under cheminformatics. So why don’t you produce a survey on that.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
[...] And you can fill out the survey or get the code from BioinformaticsZen and embed the survey on your own site, too: http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/07/creating-a-picture-of-different-careers-in-bioinformatics/ [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
[...] Zen Trying to format markdown *inside* markdown, is a really frustrating activity. Creating a picture of different careers in bioinformatics [...]
July 15th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
[...] Se avete 5 minuti di tempo potete conpilare questo piccolo questionario anonimo: - http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/07/creating-a-picture-of-different-careers-in-bioinformatics/ [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
i think,bioinformatics will be definately beneficial for researchers,students,scientits and even for the business purpose……..
July 17th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I am a biologist, retired as a professor of Genetics from Barkatullah University, Bhopal India. I have found with the help of my younger colleagues that the human genome owes some of the DNA sequences from plant gene pools. I have suggested this and published with my colleague and Ph.D. student Dr Arun Bajpai ( now deceased) and Dr Rajeev Goswami, an unemployed senior PDF ( Who has the background of Statistics and Computers) using DNA sequences and blasting them with human DNA sequences.
Since I am retired even without pension, I look for a helpful cooperation and support. Ther are too many things that can be discoverd.
(H.K.Goswami)
July 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
It’s a fair point Bosco. There are a many different categories I could have added, but I had to try and pick a small but comprehensive list that would make statisitical analysis relatively straight forward.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
[...] and two more weeks to go, the survey is halfway through. If you haven’t already filled it in, please try and take a few minutes to do so, you can leave any fields blank that you’re uncomfortable [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
[...] 21 07 2008 If you haven’t filled the survey yet, please spend few minutes to do so over at Bioinformatics Zen. There are only two weeks [...]
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
took me a few seconds to find your Submit button (needed to scroll down inside survey window to find it). At least that is so in Safari.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Fixed. Thanks
July 27th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
[...] The original post, for the Bioinformatics Career Survey [...]
July 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Having been around on science for quite a while, I like to see a distinction between bioinformatician and bioinformaticist in this kind of survey. There should be no rivalry between the two as one cannot survive without the other. Remember that.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
What is the difference between bioinformatician and bioinformaticist? No idea.
Anyway, talking about bioinformatics, this new search engine http://www.Vadlo.com is a very very useful tool to have arrived in a long time.
-Miles
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
[...] July 2, 2008 by shwu Michael Barton over at Bioinformatics Zen is collecting responses from those working in the field of bioinformatics to survey the current climate (and projected future) of bioinformatics, with data to be made public and back analysis encouraged. The (fully functional) survey is replicated below, the original can be found here. [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
[...] wrote about this Bioinformaticist Career survey previously and now the results are out (that’s some analysis, here are the full [...]