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Re:Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What ... by tocomment on Saturday September 25, 2010 @11:12AM (#1727089)
How do you suggest getting involved in Bio-Engineering. I'm a programmer, I've applied to a few opportunities but no one has replied :-(
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Re:Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What ... by kls on Saturday September 25, 2010 @12:07PM (#1727210)
You need to first educate yourself on the subject at hand. Then when you know enough about the subject join one of the open source projects.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmiss/ http://www.physiome.org/

there are countless others just use Google. This will help you establish a network of individuals in the industry. Software skills along will not get you that far. You need domain knowledge as well as contacts in the industry.

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