The hardest part of my job isn’t the code—it’s the interpretation .
My day doesn’t start with a microscope. It starts with a terminal. Usually, I’m staring at a 50GB FASTQ file that decided to corrupt itself at 2:00 AM. david bioinfo
Sometimes, I’m a plumber (unclogging data pipelines). Sometimes, a detective (finding a single SNP in 3 billion base pairs). And once a month, I’m a philosopher (arguing whether a p-value of 0.051 is really non-significant). The hardest part of my job isn’t the
The hardest part of my job isn’t the code—it’s the interpretation .
My day doesn’t start with a microscope. It starts with a terminal. Usually, I’m staring at a 50GB FASTQ file that decided to corrupt itself at 2:00 AM.
Sometimes, I’m a plumber (unclogging data pipelines). Sometimes, a detective (finding a single SNP in 3 billion base pairs). And once a month, I’m a philosopher (arguing whether a p-value of 0.051 is really non-significant).
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