May 3, 2008

Required skills for a computational biologist

I used to visit nature jobs, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and some computational groups . I often see these requirements for a job application in computational biology. It might be useful for the one who wants to become skilled computational biologist.

Python programming language.
Competent in perl programming language
Experience of shell scripting
Working in a Unix / Linux environment.
A good working knowledge of sequence analysis
Experience in functional annotation of biological sequences
SQL/PostgreSQL database design and use
Statistical analysis
Good knowledge of online Bioinformatics resources
HTML, CSS, PHP etc.

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