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It feels hard to get into Bioinformatics without a PHD. I would love to tackle problems in genetics, medicine, and etc. But I'm not going to commit 7 years of m

It feels hard to get into Bioinformatics without a PHD. I would love to tackle problems in genetics, medicine, and etc. But I'm not going to commit 7 years of my life to breaking into a highly regulated sector before I get to "Hello World!". Is there a hacker scene in Bioinformatics?

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jianshen 15y ago
My father is in the hospital right now and I feel the same frustration. A family friend who is a professor of radiology mentioned that a major driver of research in medical imaging comes from video game graphics work. He even submitted a paper to siggraph around interpolating 3d space from 2d CT scans. There are direct and indirect applications from the techie scene, it just doesn't get the kind of press like consumer tech and the hacker scene tends to be at universities and learning hospitals.
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  http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_medical_data_explosion.html http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_med...
VladRussian 15y ago
it is hard to be hired there. That creates relatively closed system where software is in the state that can significantly benefit even from short professional generic programmer involvement - at least it was on few occasions i or my friends happened to touch it. With respect to open source work - the field is wide open. For example, as "data mining/big data" was mentioned, the interesting recent development synthesizing advances in general availability of cheap server farms (hardware and software -wise, in particular cloud/hadoop) and a new approach - "meta/shotgun sequencing" - enabled by such advances can be found here http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/index.shtml http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/index.shtml Also may be interesting to look at http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/jcvi-cloud-biolinux/overview/ http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/jcvi-cloud-biolinu...
jergason 15y ago
I work in a bioinformatics/proteomics lab that does all open-source work. I am sure we are not alone. https://github.com/princelab https://github.com/princelab is where our code lives. OpenWetWare is a wiki for biology labs that several bioinformatics people use as well. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
dukeleto 15y ago
There are a few Github orgs that you may want to look at: https://github.com/GMOD https://github.com/GMOD https://github.com/solgenomics https://github.com/solgenomics Also, #bioinformatics on freenode is a good place to meet people.

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jianshen 15y ago

My father is in the hospital right now and I feel the same frustration. A family friend who is a professor of radiology mentioned that a major driver of research in medical imaging comes from video game graphics work. He even submitted a paper to siggraph around interpolating 3d space from 2d CT scans. There are direct and indirect applications from the techie scene, it just doesn't get the kind of press like consumer tech and the hacker scene tends to be at universities and learning hospitals.

Create 15y ago
http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_medical_data_explosion.html http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_med...

VladRussian 15y ago

it is hard to be hired there. That creates relatively closed system where software is in the state that can significantly benefit even from short professional generic programmer involvement - at least it was on few occasions i or my friends happened to touch it. With respect to open source work - the field is wide open. For example, as "data mining/big data" was mentioned, the interesting recent development synthesizing advances in general availability of cheap server farms (hardware and software -wise, in particular cloud/hadoop) and a new approach - "meta/shotgun sequencing" - enabled by such advances can be found here http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/index.shtml http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/index.shtml Also may be interesting to look at http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/jcvi-cloud-biolinux/overview/ http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/jcvi-cloud-biolinu...

jergason 15y ago

I work in a bioinformatics/proteomics lab that does all open-source work. I am sure we are not alone. https://github.com/princelab https://github.com/princelab is where our code lives. OpenWetWare is a wiki for biology labs that several bioinformatics people use as well. http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

dukeleto 15y ago

There are a few Github orgs that you may want to look at: https://github.com/GMOD https://github.com/GMOD https://github.com/solgenomics https://github.com/solgenomics Also, #bioinformatics on freenode is a good place to meet people.