As David the bioinformatician, my real value isn’t typing fast. It’s knowing when a result is biologically plausible vs. computationally correct but nonsense .
My day doesn’t start with a microscope. It starts with a terminal. Usually, I’m staring at a 50GB FASTQ file that decided to corrupt itself at 2:00 AM. david bioinfo
The first rule of : Always check your checksums. As David the bioinformatician, my real value isn’t
At 1:00 PM, the wet-lab team sends me an email: “Hi David, we ran the PCR. Can you just ‘quickly’ align this to the genome and find every variant associated with that rare disease? Thanks! Need it by 3 PM.” I smile. I type. I invoke the sacred magic: My day doesn’t start with a microscope
Welcome to bioinformatics. It’s not just running BLAST on a Sunday afternoon.
Why ‘rm -rf’ is scarier than a pipette tip, and other truths of digital biology. Introduction: Hello, World (of Omics)