Pathology resident working with big data and an undergrad in physics checking in. I learned SQL. Met Stonebraker before the Turing Award. I taught myself Pyth

Pathology resident working with big data and an undergrad in physics checking in. I learned SQL. Met Stonebraker before the Turing Award. I taught myself Python in part by working on Rosalind problems. It's not that I don't understand. I don't have chunks of time large enough to quiet my mind, frame-shift, and work on my research at the code level. I've got IRBs and all sorts of oversight to deal with, budgets, etc. and the biology. A central success of my project has been recruiting professional CS people early. That's my single biggest suggestion for biologists: know that professional computer scientists and programmers are desperately hungry for interesting data and would love nothing more than to help you design the project up front so they don't get sucked into the vortex of technical debt that will swallow your project if you don't set it up right early.