What is a Bioinformatician?

[David Jones]

Peter Karp (pkarp at ai.sri.com) wrote:

: I find your comments hard to understand given that SmithKline has in
: fact hired a number of very good multidisciplinary bioinformaticians.

I'm sure many of those appointments weren't as a result of an application
sent in through normal channels - or even responses to advertisements.
Many of these appointments will have resulted from "little chats" at
conferences, or "invitations to visit and give a seminar". Headhunting
is becoming quite common in the bioinformatics field.

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