About bioinformatics thesis

Question

[young_bioinformatician]

Hi guys,

I am a master student that I am in first semester. Now, My thesis hasn't been determined yet. Im gonna work on bioinformatics topic. But My advisor told me that your thesis may be about graphical user interface of specific bioinformatics tool. This tool,which just works on Linux command line, had been made by someone. So, I will just try to develop GUI of it. So, this topic is related with bioinformatics ? Because I have doubts. Thanks in advance.

[GenoMax]

Developing a GUI for an existing tool is a pure software project. That probably can't even be used for a comp sci thesis let alone bioinformatics.

[young_bioinformatician]

Yeah, I agree with you. So, I will want him to change my thesis. Thank you very much.

[Eric Lim]

Bio is a big part of the word bioinformatics. It's best if your thesis will directly address some biological challenges. During such process, you might create and publish a tool or two you develop, and that's excellent, but I would suggest you find a topic that is more biology-centric.

Answer 1

[Sishuo Wang]

I think it is totally fine. The design of GUI for an existing bioinformatics tool can be helpful to many people. See an example link1.

[GenoMax]

I think it is totally fine

Totally fine for a paper, sure, but as a bioinformatics thesis topic, I don't think so. The link you posted above is for a difficult to use program publish in a specialty journal.