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Forum:Is Bioinformatics a creative field/industry?

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The wikipedia page for Creative Industries lists:

software, computer games and electronic publishing

Since Bioinformatics is a software field/industry, I would like to ask people's opinion, as subjective as they can be, with regards of how much creativity does it take to work in Bioinformatics, maybe describing examples in favor or against the premise.

As a comparison, if we take a highly creative industry as computer games, which still has a big technical component, how does it compare to Bioinformatics? Which one is more creative?

Anyone?

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I think people will have different definitions of what is considered "creative".

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I'd suggest bioinformatics requires ingenuity - ability to devise solutions for many,diverse problems - rather than creativity.

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Ram · Answer 1 · 2014-12-01

I haven't thought of it this way, but then I looked up the Wikipedia link that you posted, it says:

The creative industries refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information."*

With that definition all applications of bioinformatics belong to the creative industry as they target the information encoded in biological systems.