| Comment | a slight caution is that bioinformatics is highly abstracted from biology - it's an interesting field of research of its own accord, but treat it more as a field of computer science that happens to have applications in biology. I got initially excited about bioinformatics because it sounded really cool - the interface of computer science and genetics - but then when I discovered it was basically about creating efficient algorithms for regular expressions, and really rather decoupled from actual genetics, I cooled on it really fast
think of it like being a sparky at CERN - you're really important to the project, but you're not doing the actual quantum physics |
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