Bioinformatics is a terrible mess and the rest of my career (15 years) will most likely just be cleaning up the shit built over the last 20 years. Bioinformati

Bioinformatics is a terrible mess and the rest of my career (15 years) will most likely just be cleaning up the shit built over the last 20 years. Bioinformatics, especially genomics, is particularly prone to medical hype- the implication that these discoveries will rapidly lead to health improvements. Scientists are incentivized to claim the largest gains with the least amount of supporting data.