I am guessing that if somebody is thinking of applying for a postdoc in Bioinformatics, they would have some knowledge about what Bioinformatics is. Is it too much to ask/assume that these smart "fresh PhD graduates" (hopefully in something related to Bioinformatics) have experience with NGS data (irrespective of RNA/DNA), some microarray data, unix and R/Matlab? In today's "Biology/Bioinformatics" world, I don't see how one can get through without encountering any/all of these. People read all these research papers and these days pretty much everything is Sequencing/array based and there is always a section on "Statistical Data Analysis" methods which includes the use of R/MATLAB.
I would think that people who post these job-requirements don't really expect a candidate to have hands-on experience in all of these, but it is very helpful to have candidates with atleast the knowledge of their existence. I would think this is actually a good screen, otherwise anybody could/would apply for these and it takes more than a few weeks to learn/train in any of these things. It is really not as trivial as a lot of people make it sound.
Just my opinion! Happy coding!
I would think that people who post these job-requirements don't really expect a candidate to have hands-on experience in all of these, but it is very helpful to have candidates with atleast the knowledge of their existence. I would think this is actually a good screen, otherwise anybody could/would apply for these and it takes more than a few weeks to learn/train in any of these things. It is really not as trivial as a lot of people make it sound.
Just my opinion! Happy coding!
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