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Isn't this what the entire field of bioinformatics supposed to be about? I know a few people who left it because it doesn't pay as well (in the US) as your aver
by itg 5y ago
Isn't this what the entire field of bioinformatics supposed to be about? I know a few people who left it because it doesn't pay as well (in the US) as your average software engineering job.
- gilleain 5y agoI have seen a distinction made between "bioinformatics" - analysing biological data with software - and "computational biology" - using biological systems to do computing. What OP seems to be talking about is systems modelling, where you model the network of genes and proteins (genomics and proteomics) using tools partly derived from modelling of computer networks.
- epgui 5y agoThat's not how I would explain bioinformatics and computational biology... What people often mean when they say bioinformatics is actually computational biology: using computer software, algorithms and other such tools to analyze biological data. Bioinformatics is the development of new tools, new algorithms and new methods to do computational biology. In other words, a bioinformatician is to a computer scientist what a computational biologist is to a data scientist. Using biological systems to do computing is more in the realm of "biological computers".