Outline
Bioinformatics has become too central to biology to be left to specialist bioinformaticians. Biologists are all bioinformaticians now.
Lincoln D Stein, Genome Biology 2008
This survey aims to understand the field of bioinformatics by surveying the people whom work in it. The survey was first collected in 2008 and has since been used in discussions about bioinformatics careers (1, 2, 3, 4). A new iteration of the survey was started by Pierre Lindenbaum on biostar. The collected the data is available to all members of the bioinformatics community throught the github project.
Updates
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Mar 05 12 » Last day to take the survey -
Dec 06 11 » Publications are important, but how much? -
Feb 28 12 » Three weeks of responses -
Feb 21 12 » Two weeks of responses -
Nov 28 11 » What is the best way to survey bioinformatics research areas? -
Dec 02 11 » What defines a successful bioinformatician?
Analysis
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Mar 30 12 » Programming Languages -
Mar 29 12 » Salary -
Mar 22 12 » Satisfaction