Posted by: Sparty July 28, 2011
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Biology,
You can do computational stuffs while majoring in any of the above. My major is molecular biology, and I'm doing bioinformatics. I have one paper doing purely wet lab stuffs and one submitted just doing bioinformatics. Now, I'm about to graduate. I'll still be in the field of biology, but will be doing computational stuffs too. In ten years from now it will be very difficult to survive in our field (biology) if you can't use computational approaches to solve biological problems. Just think, how expensive was it to sequence a whole genome in 2000. Now people are sequencing like crazy, thanks to next-gen sequencing. So in future it will be cheaper to sequence a genome than analyzing the reads. Furthermore, you don't have to join Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to do computational stuffs. You can do these stuffs being in any of the above departments you mentioned above.
goodluck
Sparty
You can do computational stuffs while majoring in any of the above. My major is molecular biology, and I'm doing bioinformatics. I have one paper doing purely wet lab stuffs and one submitted just doing bioinformatics. Now, I'm about to graduate. I'll still be in the field of biology, but will be doing computational stuffs too. In ten years from now it will be very difficult to survive in our field (biology) if you can't use computational approaches to solve biological problems. Just think, how expensive was it to sequence a whole genome in 2000. Now people are sequencing like crazy, thanks to next-gen sequencing. So in future it will be cheaper to sequence a genome than analyzing the reads. Furthermore, you don't have to join Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to do computational stuffs. You can do these stuffs being in any of the above departments you mentioned above.
goodluck
Sparty