JOSH EARL
Bioinformatician
I’m Josh Earl, M.S., Ph.D. a bioinformatician with over 15 years of experience working in research labs. I created this website to help bioinformatics students and professionals learn techniques and skills to further their research and professional goals.
Bioinformatics is challenging
Bioinformatics lies in the intersection of three primary disciplines: Math, Computer Science, and Biology. Becoming an expert in three fields is no easy feat. Any one of those fields could be a career in itself.
Filling a bioinformatic need
When I was first starting out, I wished there were more resources available to become an effective and productive bioinformatician. Now that I have experience in the field, my goal is to be the resource I wish I would have had. In this site I will post tutorials, reviews, thoughts, and techniques, all to help new and current bioinformaticians understand processes and workflows to be successful.
Bioinformatics is rewarding – if you stick with it
It is hard to know where to start with Bioinformatics
Even after getting my degree in Computational Biology I was often lost working in research. I would see these great figures in published papers, but left scratching my head after reading rather sparse methods sections on how the images were generated. Back when I started there weren’t a lot of resources to know how to get from raw data to actionable clear results. While there are a lot more resources now I want to give my own perspective to hopefully help others.
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I have deeply regretted that i did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
— Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887)