Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
The book is a ready reckoner aimed at the student community aspiring to take up a career in bioinformatics. The book firstly provides a perspective on the domain and addresses the challenges faced by community namely the attempts to understand data produc
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Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
Prashanth N. Suravajhala
Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
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Prashanth N. Suravajhala Bioclues.org Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh India
ISBN 978-81-322-1162-4 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1163-1
ISBN 978-81-322-1163-1
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To my Mother Nirmala Sastry
Foreword
When I first heard about the field of bioinformatics, I was a university senior majoring in chemistry. It was 1995, and my intention at the time was to focus on the application of chemistry in the life sciences. In fact, in those days I was interested in any field of science or engineering that could be applied to biology. But, when it came time to select a project for my senior thesis, I was asked by my thesis adviser if I had an interest in computers. Certainly, I did. I had a year of computer science courses under my belt, but I also had an avid interest in computers as a hobby—I wrote my first BASIC program circa 1981 on a friend’s Atari 800. And, so my adviser proceeded to tell me that there is this nascent field called ‘‘bioin
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