From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-12-17T12:24:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in Bioinformatics


"Simon Cozens" <simon@simon-cozens.org> wrote in message
> Neither have I, so I asked James Tisdall, author of Beginning Perl for
> Bioinformatics about it; this was his response:
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/02/bioinf.html

Speaking from first hand experience, I strongly agree with Tisdall's
observations in this article. Some 10 years ago, after publishing a couple
of  research papers in reputed journals,  I came this = close to making the
switch from CS to Bioinformatics. But could not do so due to some personal
reasons. Looking back I cannot say that I regreted the decision. Of course,
it is never possible to accurately predict what could have happened had  I
taken "the one less traveled by" (Robert Frost:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_ro
ad.html), but I must admit that it was a fascinating field then and still
is.

If you are seriously thinking of breaking in, make sure that you are willing
to sacrifice a broader career path (and possibly more lucrative one too) for
a more narrower one.

And if you have already made the decision, do keep us (or at least me)
posted.
Wish you the very best !