Very nice blog to read for lonely bioinformaticians employed within laboratory based group.
This may be a uniquely UK centric blog post but I suspect not. Let me start with a brief story. Sat with a coffee in our canteen a few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between a few PIs about a grant application. “Don’t worry”, the lead PI said, “we’ve put money on the application to fund a bioinformatician”. Good planning I hear you say, and I agree; however, note that none of the PIs in that discussion were themselves bioinformaticians; none of them can code; put them in front of a Linux terminal and they wouldn’t know what to do................
Read the full blog post here: http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/a-guide-for-the-lonely-bioinformatician/
