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What do bioinformaticians do?

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Write software |Use software

Understand dataWork with many programsSense of computational methods Locate information

Develop computational methodsUnderstand statistics, programsSense of biologyCreate databases & automation scripts.

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Bioinformatics in biotechnology instruction

Software / Databases Cn3DExcelBLASTWordOrf finderImage editingNCBI resourcesWeb browsers!!

15-20 things

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What happens?

Significant focus on basic software skills

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Future: team science

Laboratory – produce dataInstrument softwareLIMS (Lab Information Management Systems)

SpreadsheetsSearch and retrieve informationData systemsAnalytic tools

Computation – reduce and processAlgorithm developmentAnalytical toolsData processingStatistical packagesDatabase design, implementationScripts

Biology – new knowledgeSpecialized softwareAnalytic toolsReview, verify data and resultsPresentation, graphingSearch and retrieve informationDatabase queries, report builders

Communication, Collaboration, Project Management