Imagine being both a science dork and computer nerd. We call those people bioinformaticians and beg them to debug our pitiful little programs for us. If we're lucky, one of them has already written a program that performs the exact data analysis that we need. That saves us feeble bad programmers much time and keeps our frustration at a minimum. Alas, they rarely write a program that does exactly what we need, so we often need to figure out how to manipulate their code to do what we want.
Some bioinformaticians have gotten together and started a blog carnival (who does that?) and named it Bio::Blogs (this is some sort of computer joke). The first edition is available at Public Rambling. They included a link to my post on the evolution of gene expression, along with a few other more bioinformatic posts. If you blog about bioinformatics or computational biology, consider submitting a post for next month's edition.
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So we are dorks and nerds hum ? :) I am not sure I could call myself a programmer (biochemistry background) so maybe I can be just a dork. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the mention. We're definitely geeks though, not nerds and certainly not dorks :) Geek is the new cool, you know.
We'll most likely be back in a couple of weeks to ask for posts for the next edition. It doesn't have to be hardcore programming material - genomics is certainly within our sphere of interest (see Nodalpoint for the types of things that people discuss). So don't be shy and submit those posts.
I don't see being labeled a dork or a nerd a bad thing. I refuse to call myself a geek, and I won't use the word to describe someone else (unless I'm looking to really insult them). Look into the etymology of "geek". It's not a happy story.
I understand the word "geek" is related to the phrase "tastes like chicken."