Yeah, I kind of felt the same way. One would have a hard time selling bioinformatics. One would have a much easier time selling information derived from bioinfo

Yeah, I kind of felt the same way. One would have a hard time selling bioinformatics. One would have a much easier time selling information derived from bioinformatics. A very important point to be made indeed, especially since most of the bioinformatics packages and software I use are free (and I would love to keep it that way!). In fact, the open source community is vital to the field; otherwise everyone would just keep having to re-invent the wheel. Just to keep everyone up to date, I talked to a few professors this afternoon about grad school. The condensed version of what they said is that given my major, I can choose to research in a field that applies bioinformatics (i.e. evolution, molecular biology, etc), or I can study bioinformatics itself (making better tools, optimizing algorithms, etc).