Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics

• Main Author: Suravajhala, Prashanth N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Chemoinformatics.; Bioinformatics.; Life Sciences.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Computer Applications in Chemistry.

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 produced by genome sequencing projects. It then bri...

Table of Contents:

• Whither Bioinformatics
• Ten Reasons one should take Bioinformatics as Career
• Developing Bioinformatics Skills
• The Esoteric of Bioinformatics
• Common Minimum Standards:  A Syllabus for Bioinformatics Practitioners
• Colloquial Group Discussion on Bioinformatics:  Grand challenges
• The Bioinforma 'TICKS':  Frequently Asked Questions
• References.