Share Your
Career Spotlights: Inspirational Stories from Computational Biology
Questions for Personae:
- What training did you receive to bring you here?
- Do you get training on the job?
- How do you make sure your knowledge stays current?
- Are you still in the primary field where you received your academic training?
- Did you ever make a career change?
- What do you know now that you wish you’d known when you started out down this career path?
- Anything else you want to tell us about your career in bioinformatics?
- Advice to new/entering bioinformaticians?
- What was the biggest obstacle you faced?
- Tips for making a career change?
Example Career Paths
- Biocurator
- Principal Investigator, Academia
- Data Engineering (workflow, application, algorithm development)
- Data Scientist (analysis, hypothesis testing, hypothesis generation)
- Scientific Software Engineering Manager
- Product Owner/Product Development Leader
- Quality Assurance/Test Engineering
- Scientific Communication
- Scientific Writing (journalism, blog/book, copy-editing, documentation)
- Journal Editor
- Administrative liaison
- Bioinformatics Core Facilities