1. Bioinformatics Careers
Marine Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Teacher Enhancement Program at Moss Landing Marine Labs

2. Bioinformatics as a Career
Computational Biology (Computer Science)
Systems Biology (Mathematics)
Informatics (Computer Science)

3. Bioinformatics for Everyone
Bioscience employers now expect that their employees can use a standard set of bioinformatic tools
Knowledge of word processing and spread sheets is considered an ordinary job skill now-a-days
The same goes for editing, matching and retrieving, and aligning sequence data in biology

4. Bioinformatics Field Transforming
Job market for “Bioinformaticians” was down between 2002 and 2006…
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology expansion “paused.”
Too many programs… and they were designed by biologists… tools had been developed…
But…

5. Job
Prospects
Looking Up
Again…
Bioinformatics

6. Many Companies are Advertising Again

7. Computational
Biology

8. Systems
Biology

9. How do you prepare your students?
Mathematics
Statistics
Computer Science
Love for Biology and asking the right questions…
Physics
Chemistry