If you're getting near finishing your PhD (within a couple of years or less), check out this article from PLoS Computational Biology. It offers ten suggestions to consider when searching for a post doc. The suggestions are not comp-bio specific, but I'd be interested in hearing if people have other ideas. I've definitely been thinking about post docs, but I have no concrete plans as of yet.
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