In this video we talk about supply and demand for bioinformaticians, and why it is hard for professors to recruit bioinformatics post-docs — which is good for PhDs who want to fill that gap.
This video shows off the powers of ggplot (a plotting package in R) with a script that automatically generates dozens of plots by adapting to the types of columns in a dataset. ggplot2 is a Read more...
Is Excel a useful tool for analyzing data in biology/bioinformatics? Excel is a commonly used tool for analyzing data in biology, but it has a bad habit of converting gene names to dates. Here is Read more...
Bioinformatics is a huge field with many definitions. This video discusses a broader definition of bioinformatics based on the intersection of biology, computer science, and math/statistics. I also break research in the field up into Read more...