By Nancy Volkers, Science Magazine
Given the amount of data being generated daily, and the continued explosive growth in technology, it’s no surprise that Bry sees bioinformatics as a growing area with “definite, immediate” needs for computer scientists, engineers, informatics experts, and statisticians. “We have clinical data, genetic data, proteomic data. … Increasingly, we will need to merge those data sets and either do fishing expeditions for what’s important or develop ways to validate the information and find ways to use it,” she says. “We’ll need bioinformatics tools; we’ll need statisticians; we’ll need people who can build computational tools. And that’s just on the research side. Layer on top of that the need to do these things for clinical decision support — that’s basically an empty field.”
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