Peter Karp wrote:
>< [author not cited, tsk, tsk] >
> > I agree with this rather pessimistic view. At the end of one meeting on
...
> > that, no, their companies would not. They just did not have the mechanisms
> > for identifying someone who was good at an ill-defined subject (i.e. one
> > that did not fit into the form on an HR person's desk), nor the mechanisms
> > for evaluating, using and promoting (or firing) them once they had got
> > them. So, while evryone talks about multidisciplinary work, the big
> > companies cannot hire people to do it.
>> I find your comments hard to understand given that SmithKline has in
> fact hired a number of very good multidisciplinary bioinformaticians.
>
I suspect they were actively recruited rather than applicants who
submitted
cvs.
Re: the subject line, in my mind a bioinformatician is an individual
who can consider/discuss questions involving relatively advanced
concepts from both computer science and biochemistry. For example,
relating the Chomsky hierarchy to protein folding or enzyme mechanisms.
rob.
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