A miscellany of musings from a science geek, would-be author and occasional creator/supporter of open-source bioinformatics software. Stuff I do, stuff I like... Because the Internet has a better memory than I do.
Monday, 7 September 2015
Is there an important difference between bioinformatics and computational biology?
Ha ha! Nice post. Sometimes I think bioinformatics is done by computer scientists who switched to biology, while computational biology is done by biologists who learned programming. But in the end they do the same thing: crunching biological data with a computer :-)
In my experience, biologists (and I include myself) do "bioinformatics", whilst computer scientists do "computational biology". But ask another ten people and you'll get another ten distinctions - and I refer to my activities as both, depending on audience. Hence: "No"!
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Ha ha! Nice post. Sometimes I think bioinformatics is done by computer scientists who switched to biology, while computational biology is done by biologists who learned programming. But in the end they do the same thing: crunching biological data with a computer :-)
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, biologists (and I include myself) do "bioinformatics", whilst computer scientists do "computational biology". But ask another ten people and you'll get another ten distinctions - and I refer to my activities as both, depending on audience. Hence: "No"!
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