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getting started in bioinfo

Jean-Etienne Poirrier jepoirrier at remove-me-please.ulg.ac.be
Fri Oct 24 09:45:25 EST 2003


Jason wrote:
> I know perl and am getting my leg up on the biology side of
> bioinformatics.  However, I don't work for a biotech company, but want
> something to work on outside of work.  However, don't I need a gene
> sequence or something to start with?  I am very interested in
> contributing to some sort of biotech research via bioinformatics, but
> don't know where to start.

Perhaps one good start is to help bioinformatics software projects. You 
can find some of them here: http://bioinformatics.org/ (see the "Hosted 
Projects" item). It's not university or company research but those tools 
can really help. :-)

Just my 2 Eurocents.
Jean-Etienne




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