What is the difference between Computational Biology & Bioinformatics?

About the prospect of a CS PhD concentrating on bioinformatics get a job in an internet company?

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If your goal is to work in an internet company, then I would suggest to pick a program at a CS department or at the CS department with concentration on Bioinformatics. During your PhD try to master the data science toolkit together with interactive web visualizations. Learn Python, Pandas, D3.js. Together with experience of working with APIs and relational and non-relational databases this skill set is very attractive to tech companies. However, if you focus more on biology and just applying bioinformatics tools and doing a bit of bash scripting and R for statistics like many bioinformaticians do, then your degree will be mostly irrelevant to the internet industry.

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