About the prospect of a CS PhD concentrating on bioinformatics get a job in an internet company?
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Hi everyone. I am a 2012 fall Phd applicant. I see that there are bioinformatics PhD in both (1) CS dept. and (2) biology dept., and there is also (3)PhD in CS with a concentration on Bioinformatics, so I just got confused with these three kind of programs. Could anyone give me a clear insight into the difference of them? After my PhD I would want to go to an Internet company, can the program prepare me well for the requirements of the Internet industry? Will the companies think my degree is not suit for their companies? Appreciated for any reply.
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If you can master R, and statistics, a job in an Internet company should be possible. Demand for data scientists is pretty decent currently. https://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQqQIoADADahUKEwiH6NuH-9DHAhXDjiwKHTNSDL0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rudebaguette.com%2F2015%2F08%2F28%2Fdata-scientist-the-hottest-profession-of-2015%2F&ei=rQvjVcfdOcOdsgGzpLHoCw&usg=AFQjCNEWhhRGCsYV3b3H0gIuZ3TiZsq9jQ&sig2=sVOKzZ__EKoTTgLSZeylOA
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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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