1) Join a lab as a programmer (e.g., National Weather Service (climate), J. Craig Institute (infectious diseases)) 2) Read the computational papers on a subjec

1) Join a lab as a programmer (e.g., National Weather Service (climate), J. Craig Institute (infectious diseases)) 2) Read the computational papers on a subject you are interested; replicate the results in the papers and open source your software/pipeline; apply the method to a newer data-set. 3) Contribute to a open source informatics toolchain used for the subject (e.g., https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam)