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Re:Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer by LeicesterCity on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:38AM (#12201347)
I'm a recent Biology undergrad. Do you have any advice for learning Comp Bio/Bioinformatics? Can it be self-taught, or does one need a PhD?
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Re:Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer by sn9 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @04:44PM (#12213243)
It can definitely be self-taught!

A promising path would be to self-teach as much as possible and then apply for an MS program in bioinformatics or something similar.

Apart from the usual advice for teaching yourself programming, you can practice bioinformatic-specific skills at the wonderful Rosalind Project [0].

[0] http://rosalind.info/about/

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Re:Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer by eru on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:36AM (#12201601)
The programming part can definitely be self-taught, that's basically how virtually everybody actually goes about learning programming successfully.

You already know some biology, so you can probably say more about that side of the equation.

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