BZ: Bioinformatics Career Survey 2008

Mike is running a survey about Bioinformatics Career [ http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/07/creating-a-picture-of-different-careers-in-bioinformatics/ ]. Although it is running for quite some time, but I just came back to blog-world. I would appeal to all the people in the domain to fill this. The more the samples, the better the survey and more over this is time of data driven science [ http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory ] though Deepak has some issues with this development [ http://mndoci.com/blog/2008/06/25/chris-anderson-you-are-wrong/ ].

clipped from www.bioinformaticszen.com When I wrote a post about my opinion of doing a career in bioinformatics I got the impression from the comments that this was something many people wanted more information about. Pedro and I had some discussion, and thought it might be interesting to create an online survey, to get current researchers’ opinions of working in the field of bioinformatics. So, the below survey begins today (July 1) and is filled out by as many people as possible over the course the next month. The data is then released into the public domain at the start of next month (August 1). Anyone who is then interested can contribute back analysis of this data, so that on September 1 hopefully we can compile together lots of interesting statistics and graphs into a handy document discussing the highs and lows of career in bioinformatics.