From the comments on the linked article's site: >I currently work in a bioinformatics group, and have been in computer applications for science for 20 years. I

From the comments on the linked article's site: >I currently work in a bioinformatics group, and have been in computer applications for science for 20 years. I do not think Bioinformatics will be going back to biology, I see it as going back to computer science and biology. As the tools get better, there will be less and less need for people that understand both – there will still biology computer applications, but it will be commercialized and individual labs will not have their own developers. You can already see the trend starting. Statisticians do not write their own stats programs, they buy SAS or download R, in 10 years biologists will be doing the same. I tend to agree with this. More than computer science departments going away, I see other departments following the lead of Schools of Business Administration. Essentially every SBA now offers a degree that is essentially a 'Management Information Systems' degree, which instructs on how to take the specialized applications that exist out there and leverage them in your firm to accomplish any number of organizational goals. I could see a trend where more and more departments develop their analog to this, suited to their specific discipline.