Seems like synthetic biology is a field you should look into! It's very exciting!

Ill need to look into it.

My background is in Biomed but I joined the dark side and became a computer scientist instead.

Slightly OT but related interesting trivia. Look up a language called CRN++ developed by UT Austin for "programming deterministic (mass-action) chemical kinetics in performing computations". Press release type article here - https://interestingengineering.com/synthetic-biology-gets-a-...

ArXiv abstract here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430

Git repo here: https://github.com/marko-vasic/crnPlusPlus

Hope to see some interesting synthetic molecules published by you :-)

You may also be interested in the field of biological computing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing#Biochemic...). Since your background covers both biology and computer science. Plus the field is new enough that you could be a part of some exciting research.

I wouldn't call it the dark side, I think there can always be an overlap in one's skillset.

having been a biochemist (and maybe going back) but also a professional programmer, I am very pessimistic about this.

One time, though, I used ruby to scrape a chinese website where they made 'public' the genome of an organism. They clearly weren't interested in actually making it public (as the sequences were very hard to pull), and after we had gotten the data they made it impossible and took down announcements that it was public, so sometimes real computer skills are welcome!