What do you want to do? I am a molecular biologist but I had a comp sci minor in college. I would consider myself more in Genomic/Genetics, but they can really be the same thing as bioinformatics.
Are you undergrad or Grad?
Learn Hadoop, R and python. Get into a lab. Start a project mining information in the UCI data mining repository(or something similar). You can select a cool project to work on, then repeat and expand on the work the original authors did. This will get you a working familiarity with the algorithms and problems common to big data in the biological sciences. I could help you pick a set/stuff to do if you wanted. But fuck the dry lab, bench side rules!!
Also, there are some papers involving roundup I'v seen on here that i want to independently verify, I can send you a link to the data if you want to look at it. Couple hundred Mbs I think...
What do you want to do? I am a molecular biologist but I had a comp sci minor in college. I would consider myself more in Genomic/Genetics, but they can really be the same thing as bioinformatics.
Are you undergrad or Grad? Learn Hadoop, R and python. Get into a lab. Start a project mining information in the UCI data mining repository(or something similar). You can select a cool project to work on, then repeat and expand on the work the original authors did. This will get you a working familiarity with the algorithms and problems common to big data in the biological sciences. I could help you pick a set/stuff to do if you wanted. But fuck the dry lab, bench side rules!!
Also, there are some papers involving roundup I'v seen on here that i want to independently verify, I can send you a link to the data if you want to look at it. Couple hundred Mbs I think...