Why I decided to pursue bioinformatics and start a blog

Deena Blumenkrantz
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Hello World,

After years of collaborating with amazing bioinformaticians and wishing they had more time to spend on our project, I decided that the only way to make it happen was to become a bioinformatician myself. This decision, not by pure coincidence, coincided with my return to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I grew up.

Now that I am a few months into learning to program with Python I have questions and I need community input, so I decided to follow everyone’s advice and start a blog. The aim of this blog is to write about considerations and lessons learned as I undertake projects that will teach me the skills needed to become employed as a computational biologist / bioinformatician (I will use these two terms interchangeably). I will also write about the choices and mistakes that I make as I progress along this journey plus any other tidbits that seem worth mentioning.

Please do interact: leave comments, send messages, don’t be shy to disagree, and please always be respectful.

Thanks in advance for coming along for the ride!

- Deena

P.S.

All my blogs will be accompanied with code and Jupyter Notebooks on my github account, where appropriate:

If you’d like to learn more about my background, please find me on LinkedIn:

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