Actually, Perl was a quite natural choice for a while for some computational biology / bioinformatics workloads. In particular, defining scripts where you expect a sequence (like DNA) as input and a filtered or modified…
I chose to focus on computational biology because I had an amazing professor that I wanted to work with. That being said, an amazing professor != amazing advisor... something I discovered when trying to finish my PhD…
Actually, Perl was a quite natural choice for a while for some computational biology / bioinformatics workloads. In particular, defining scripts where you expect a sequence (like DNA) as input and a filtered or modified…
I chose to focus on computational biology because I had an amazing professor that I wanted to work with. That being said, an amazing professor != amazing advisor... something I discovered when trying to finish my PhD…