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Build tools to make research more efficient and reproducible. The research community is a small market and has little money. Building tools is often not regarde
by prennert 7y ago
Build tools to make research more efficient and reproducible. The research community is a small market and has little money. Building tools is often not regarded as scientific activity and can lead to dead ends if publication is pursued.
So, if you do not have to rely on income anymore and want to contribute to science, build tools for the community. Or better, come up with a way to help scientists to build their own tools fast and efficiently.
- mariushn 7y agoThanks! Any other details / specifics would be welcome, since it seems you already have some knowledge in this area.
- prennert 7y agoWith my background in computer science and ML, I worked with genitesists to automate some of their observations. A lot (almost everything) what they do routinely is still done manually. In genetics there are about 10 model organisms (I forgot the exact number) that most work is done on. Examples I have come in touch with are C. Elegans, D. Melanogaster and mice. A huge amount of work is done on these organisms and a huge amount of time is spent by grad students and post docs, repeating the same boring tasks day in and out. This is a big factor in deciding the breath of studies (you can only compare as many conditions as you can evaluate). Some things biologists do are subjective or prone to bias (even objective tasks like counting stuff becomes kind of biased after fatigue sets in if you have to count a lot of things and have to do it very often) If you can automate their tasks, what will happen is that you will enable them to increase the breath of their studies drastically and potentially create more consistent measurements as well.