101 Questions: a series of interviews with notable bioinformaticians
I've noticed recently that more and more bioinformaticians are talking about what it means to be a bioinformatician, and — in an ideal world — what sort of training bioinformaticians of the future should be getting. Mick Watson's Opiniomics blog in particular has a lot of great material on these subjects. One of his blog posts that talks about the disconnect between actual bioinformatics skills a student/postdoc might have and the expectation of those skills from their trainer/supervisor makes for sober reading (especially if you see all of the comments).
So I thought it might be instructive to ask a simple series of questions to a bunch of notable bioinformaticians to assess their feelings on the current state of bioinformatics research, and maybe get any tips they have about what has been useful to their bioinformatics careers.
I will attempt to keep this post updated with links to all of the interviews that I have published:
List of interviews
- 38: Gene Myers
- 37: Keith Robison
- 36: Alicia Oshlack
- 35: Aaron Darling
- 34: Katie Pollard
- 33: Sarah Teichmann
- 32: Aaron Quinlan
- 31: Morgan Taschuk
- 30: Vince Buffalo
- 29: Jane Loveland
- 28: Jonathan Eisen
- 27: Michael Barton
- 26: Kerstin Howe
- 25: Alex Bateman
- 24: Sara Gosline
- 23: Todd Harris
- 22: Danielle Lemay
- 21: Stephen Turner
- 20: Roy Chaudhuri
- 19: Valerie Schneider
- 18: Richard Emes
- 17: Karin Lagesen
- 16: Melissa Wilson Sayres
- 15: Karyn Meltz Steinberg
- 14: Shaun Jackman
- 13: Michael Schatz
- 12: Karen Eilbeck
- 11: Ewan Birney
- 10: Lex Nederbragt
- 9: Tuuli Lappalainen
- 8: Nick Loman
- 7: Holly Bik
- 6: Mario Caccamo
- 5: Laura Clarke
- 4: Michael Hoffman
- 3: Deanna Church
- 2: Titus Brown
- 1: Mick Watson
- 0: Ian Korf