In my experience, a lot of biologists learning bioinformatics/genomics tend to learn a specific set of general tools (HMMs, multiple hypothesis testing, PCA, et

In my experience, a lot of biologists learning bioinformatics/genomics tend to learn a specific set of general tools (HMMs, multiple hypothesis testing, PCA, etc.) and then learn some specific statistical tools that apply to their data (e.g negative binomial GLMs for RNAseq).