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I'm not seeing anything in the bioinformatics space at the moment. What job did you end up doing after college can I ask?

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Got recruited as a run of the mill PHP dev at a local medium sized business. Turns out my PI did not get the grant and so I ended up going private

Yup, ain't that just how it goes. I'll probably make the leap soon myself sometime this year, and I'm not looking forward to playing "skill-tetris" with recruiters.

I wouldn't worry. Research really sets apart new grads. Everyone else got a degree too, but doing cool research is usually a good conversation starter during interviews!

This pattern is common. Anecdotally, I think the majority of people trained in bioinformatics end up working full-time in standard software engineering.

I think this is starting to change. Next-generation sequencers and other imaging devices are causing more wet labs to produce massive amounts of data – which is increasing the number of companies hiring for bioinformatics roles.

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