Bioinformatics: new frontier calls young scientists
Ruediger, N.
Science 273(5272): 265
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 8669000 Document Number: 466971
Bioinformatics is a rapidly expanding discipline that exists to organize the huge mass of information produced by today's molecular biology. It is a young field, and, until recently, there were very few training programs available in the discipline. Although bioinformatics is so broad that it attracts researchers with backgrounds ranging from biology to physics to computer science, the transition to the subject is not always easy. The payoffs, both intellectual and financial, can be great, however, and the field is far from overpopulated, with the number of jobs available increasing rapidly.