Quote of the Day - Neil Saunders
This comment by Neil Saunders on his own post regarding the need for a “massive cultural change across the entire scientific community“, as stated by Corie Lok, makes so much sense in so many ways.
“In the “old days”, you would devote yourself to the study of a single system - a process, an organism or even a gene. You’d publish 20-30 papers entitled “Gene A in organism B encodes protein X involved with process Y” and eventually, be in the running for tenure. Bioinformatics means that we don’t have to work that way anymore. I can look at archaea one day, humans the next. I can apply whatever computational methods I see fit and am able to learn to any dataset that takes my fancy. In short, I don’t fit well into academia at all :)”
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