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Ask HN: What is bioinformatics?
- dalke 12y agoWhat more do you want beyond what the first few web search hits gives you for that question? One of which is http://www.ebi.ac.uk/luscombe/docs/imia_review.pdf http://www.ebi.ac.uk/luscombe/docs/imia_review.pdf. Or what's on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics ? Or the 2001 paper titled "What is bioinformatics? A proposed definition and overview of the field"? See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11552348 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11552348 Without knowing what you know it's hard to say anything more helpful than those. Edit: Looking at your HN history, I see you have asked a lot of questions - one per day for the last month - with topics like "Who's doing some c64 stuff?", "CoffeeScript or ClojureScript for writing a game in JS?", "Best server log viewer for Mac?", and the statement "We're planning to release a product for Agile/Scrum professionals, magnetic, erasable story cards that you can use on your Kanban whiteboards." I get the feeling, perhaps wrongly, that you are using HN as your personal advice board, rather than learning how to research things yourself.
- jozi9 12y agoWhat do you mean by personal advice board?
- dalke 12y agoWhat do you think it means?
- jozi9 12y agoOk, maybe I'm in a mid-life crysis and can't decide what to do. I go and try to re-align myself, and not to ask too often and too meaningless.
- dalke 12y agoNow it looks like you are trying to structure things to make it look like I'm a bad person by stepping on you when you're down. Three months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187802 you wrote that you are 35 years old, have recently switched jobs, and "feeling like I'm home." 35 is not a mid-life crisis. One of your HN questions is "Sorcerer, mage, wizard, magician, what's the difference?" You also asked it at http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/50672/sorcerer-mage-wizard-magician-whats-the-difference http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/50672/sorcerer-mage-w... . That has nothing to do with an alignment of anything. According to your questions, you are working on a lot of things, from C64 to BDD and Kanban, from genetic algorithms to photo backups, etc. For examples, "I bucket-listed a simple game dev project for myself and looking for inspiration", "Genetic Algorithms side project? As a hobby, what would you build?". Don't think you need to be inspired. That's a great way to failure. Just start doing it. Don't worry if it's not good enough for anyone else to see, or even care about. If you are in a depressed state, and unsure about what to do in life, you are not alone. My experience is that many people are that way. The best approach I know of is to talk with people, in real life, about it, or to start doing things you want to do without worrying about long-term goals. There is also professional advice for these matters - which can surely provide more helpful feedback than replies from HN strangers like me.
- jozi9 12y agoThank you so much!
- mtmail 12y agoCounter question: What kind of answer are you looking for? "What is bioinformatics" can be summed up by reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
- mtmail 12y agoExactly the response I meant to write. I also looked at the submission history.
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