Hello!
I'm currently in a Biomedical Informatics department but I'm finding my knowledge base is significantly lacking compared to what my interests are ie natural language processing, biological ontologies, statistical genomics ect.
My advisor has suggested I take about 6 or so courses in CS in additon to those required for my degree Biomedical Informatics. However, I'm thinking if I take those courses I may as well switch departments especialy considering that CS majors appear to have a significant advantage competing for gigs in Bioinformatics.
FYI, my background is in Molecular Biology/Biochemisty/cancer research and I've also learned a few programming languages including Perl, Python, and R. My long term goal is to complete the PhD.
Anyone have any thoughts?
I'm currently in a Biomedical Informatics department but I'm finding my knowledge base is significantly lacking compared to what my interests are ie natural language processing, biological ontologies, statistical genomics ect.
My advisor has suggested I take about 6 or so courses in CS in additon to those required for my degree Biomedical Informatics. However, I'm thinking if I take those courses I may as well switch departments especialy considering that CS majors appear to have a significant advantage competing for gigs in Bioinformatics.
FYI, my background is in Molecular Biology/Biochemisty/cancer research and I've also learned a few programming languages including Perl, Python, and R. My long term goal is to complete the PhD.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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