Re:Important point: (Score 1)

Sounds like Mr. Blender prefers to take his Biology straight. Forgive my little joke. As others on this thread have said, just computer science is not enough. However, a strong background in scientific applications along with computer science would serve one well in this field. Bioinformatics brings in whole new skill sets that are more likely to be possessed by slashdotters than rat slashers - string searching, data mining, large databases, algorithm and gui development, massively complex networking and data sharing, and putting this all together in a coherent computer system design. Other skills of a more mathematical or statistical nature are probably a wash - the skimpy math requirements of a CS degree barely eclipse the skimpy math requirements in biology. Statistics is the rub. I may not know Drosophila Melanogaster from Mus Musculus, but if I have an understanding of the theory behind Blast or Hidden Markov Models, then I may bring something to the party. Wearing just minimum flair, G