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I am kinda new to bioinformatics (venturing back into this after 10 years), my background is molecular biology. I know very little about bioinformatics, I know mainly web-based tools that are commonly used like BLAST, clustalW, web-based genome browsers, so basically anything that does not require programing skills. I also have very little experience with Miseq and Basespace
Going deeper, I read alot of using Perl, Python or other programing languages to be used in bioinformatics, what are these languages used for? is it for programing your own codes? or is it to be used in available (free or paid) softwares? You see my background in bioinformatics is mainly with easy, click and go, no programing software.
I am interested mainly in Clinical Diagnostics/clinical research bioinformatics (benchtop sequencers), in those fields, what bioinformatics skills will be required? will be knowing programming languages critical, for example lets take a SNP scenario, will be using variant studio software (from illumina) or using any similar software, like enlis or omicsoffice will be sufficient for SNPs? as the workflow of these software are loading your files, applying filters and look for suitable candidate variants..etc
I mean in that field clinical diagnostics, will those kind of software will be good, or a deeper bioinformatics skills will be required?
Sorry if my English not good, it is not my native language. I am also little bit confused and I have many questions in mind and can't really present them in a coherent way!!
I am kinda new to bioinformatics (venturing back into this after 10 years), my background is molecular biology. I know very little about bioinformatics, I know mainly web-based tools that are commonly used like BLAST, clustalW, web-based genome browsers, so basically anything that does not require programing skills. I also have very little experience with Miseq and Basespace
Going deeper, I read alot of using Perl, Python or other programing languages to be used in bioinformatics, what are these languages used for? is it for programing your own codes? or is it to be used in available (free or paid) softwares? You see my background in bioinformatics is mainly with easy, click and go, no programing software.
I am interested mainly in Clinical Diagnostics/clinical research bioinformatics (benchtop sequencers), in those fields, what bioinformatics skills will be required? will be knowing programming languages critical, for example lets take a SNP scenario, will be using variant studio software (from illumina) or using any similar software, like enlis or omicsoffice will be sufficient for SNPs? as the workflow of these software are loading your files, applying filters and look for suitable candidate variants..etc
I mean in that field clinical diagnostics, will those kind of software will be good, or a deeper bioinformatics skills will be required?
Sorry if my English not good, it is not my native language. I am also little bit confused and I have many questions in mind and can't really present them in a coherent way!!