Prospects of Bioinformatics

Reincarnation - Back to the blogging life after ages ! 

It has been quiet a while since my first post. Actually it has been one year plus some months for my second post. I was really busy with my academic work and dealing with other problems. So really sorry guys for taking such a long time to post my second post. Enough apologizing and lets get to the point straightway.

I know that many of you would wonder why on the earth this writer wants to make IT people in to biologists? Actually the main goal of this blog series is not to make IT guys biologist but to give some idea about what are the other fields that an IT personalty can apply himself without going in to the typical industrial opportunities. So today's title is about making you aware of these opportunities.

As you know bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field which is a combination of several fields such as Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Science , Computer science and etc. So by studying bioinformatics you will be able to gain knowledge in these variety of areas and will be able to work in different paths. In order to make it more simple and understandable look at the following diagram. 

Mainly as you know any degree holder can get in to an academic career, so as the bioinformatics students. They can work in universities as academics. Other than that there are so many areas that a bioinformatics student can work.

These career prospects have been rapidly developing due to the improvement of this field and mainly the job prospects can be seen in all sectors of biotechnology, pharmaceutical,bio medical sciences ,hospitals and research institutes. 

Following are some of the specific career areas in bioinformatics.

• Sequence assembly
• Database design and maintenance
• Sequence analysis
• Proteomics( Study of proteins)
• Pharmacological
• Pharmacology
• Bioinformatics Developer
• Computational chemist
• Bio analyst  and etc.

Bioinformatics also has many broad areas for career movement such as Bioinformatician, Bio medical computer scientist, Geneticists, Computational Biologist and Bio statistician etc.

So guys I think now you have some idea of the career prospects in bioinformatics. Hope to supply more information about the salary scales of these fields and how you can study bioinformatics, cutting edge technology used and research areas in bioinformatics in the near future.