Dear folks,
I'm going to start my PhD soon. As the starting point of my career (I consider), I would like to discuss about the careers of bioinformaticians.
In a long term, to prepare for a career in industry or academia, what are the most important skills a bioinformatician need to be trained during PhD life.
Of course, individual development depends a lot on personal interests. Personally, I'm interested in work as a scientist in pharmaceutical industry. Is that important for a person like me to train my self working as much as with medical data, or general skills are more important? What kind of skills are most needed in industry and academia from bioinformaticians?
I appreciate any kind of comments and discussions.
Thanks a lot for commenting, I have a bachelor of bioengineering, and master bioinformatics special.
I always heard from somebody says industry companies does not consider publications as that important as in academia, I'm not sure whether this is because they lack of good publications or the truth is like this. From the point of you, it seams publications rank the first place in both cases.
When you are in a company, you rarely need to write papers, but to enter industry, you will need publications unless you can convincingly demonstrate your skills by other means.