Bio-informatics

Cuck here. AMA

why did you leave /v/ ?

Thank you so much for your answer. Do you mind giving me your email adress? I still have a lot of (personal) questions about bio-informatics and your work as a genomist.

They made fun of my switch

I'm an unemployed gamer like 99% of the board but I hope you will find someone who can help. Nier Automata is fucking awesome.

Nier Automata is awesome indeed

Is learning Python enough?

Learn how to work my python and ill tell you

No worries. I would rather not give my email address out on here, it may be sci but it's still Veeky Forums. I am happy to answer any questions here but I appreciate that if you have personal ones you are not going to want to ask them.

It's a start. A great deal of scripting in this field is done using python, thats for sure. Though Sanger and a few other places like to use perl for some reason...
I would also get familliar with bash scripting too, since a lot of what you can do in bash is very useful in bioinf for its speed and concise nature. R is also invaluable.
A deep understanding of your biological field is, of course, essential. As is a full understanding of what question you are attempting to answer in your work and how you might go about doing that. Looking through literature at the way the staple tools work (the plethora of assemblers and aligners etc) work is also essential and always ongoing, since a lot of these tools have actually very simple mechanics if you strip them down.

I have zero experience in programming. Realistically, how long would it take for me to learn all that on my own?