You need to first educate yourself on the subject at hand. Then when you know enough about the subject join one of the open source projects. http://sourceforge

You need to first educate yourself on the subject at hand. Then when you know enough about the subject join one of the open source projects. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmiss/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmiss/ http://www.physiome.org/ http://www.physiome.org/ there are countless others just use Google. This will help you establish a network of individuals in the industry. Software skills along will not get you that far. You need domain knowledge as well as contacts in the industry.