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Just starting a company and figuring things out on the go doesn't work in many fields. It can work in software, and sales and marketing oriented businesses. I'

Just starting a company and figuring things out on the go doesn't work in many fields. It can work in software, and sales and marketing oriented businesses. I'm software developer by degree and profession, but recently I started to study bioinformatics and biology (on my own). My dream would be to do something meaningful in these areas, preferably in the form of running a company, but there's absolutely no way that I could succeed in it, if I start one now. There are lots of things in the world that are either just plain hard or require time to learn.

sycren 15y ago
Why don't you think you could succeed now? There are tons of bioinformatics problems that could be solved by software developers who have a bigger background in computer science. For example microarray experiments using image analysis algorithms and openCL; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
- dirtyaura 15y ago
  Interesting. Is it still an open problem without quality software? Next gen sequencing is becoming cheaper with impressive rate, do you think that microarrays will be used in 5-10 years? P.S. I noticed that you are based in NCL. I'm spending half of my time there (the other half in Finland), I'd love to chat sometime if you've time.
  - sycren 15y ago
    Love to meet up sometime, heard of supermondays? http://www.supermondays.org/ http://www.supermondays.org/ Its a tech meetup for designers/developers/entrepreneurs You might like it. I have just finished a masters in bioinformatics with a phd soon to follow. I think there are many problems that can be solved in bioinformatics with a different take on things using graphics algorithms like quad trees for spatial partition of microarrays for example. But many people I meet in this field come from a biological background first then learn computer science which seems a bit rigid. With huikea, why would you want to do something in bioinformatics? The game looks very interesting btw

sycren 15y ago

Why don't you think you could succeed now? There are tons of bioinformatics problems that could be solved by software developers who have a bigger background in computer science. For example microarray experiments using image analysis algorithms and openCL; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray

dirtyaura 15y ago
Interesting. Is it still an open problem without quality software? Next gen sequencing is becoming cheaper with impressive rate, do you think that microarrays will be used in 5-10 years? P.S. I noticed that you are based in NCL. I'm spending half of my time there (the other half in Finland), I'd love to chat sometime if you've time.
- sycren 15y ago
  Love to meet up sometime, heard of supermondays? http://www.supermondays.org/ http://www.supermondays.org/ Its a tech meetup for designers/developers/entrepreneurs You might like it. I have just finished a masters in bioinformatics with a phd soon to follow. I think there are many problems that can be solved in bioinformatics with a different take on things using graphics algorithms like quad trees for spatial partition of microarrays for example. But many people I meet in this field come from a biological background first then learn computer science which seems a bit rigid. With huikea, why would you want to do something in bioinformatics? The game looks very interesting btw