Skills required to be a Bioinformatician:

In this Page you will come to know about the skill required to be a Bioinformatician.

Skills Required to Be a Bioinformatician

Bioinformatics Skills – You need to learn how to use:

  • Sequence alignment tools such as Blast or Bowtie
  • The Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)
  • Software for Next Generation Sequencing, Microarray, qPCR, and Data Analysis (Partek)
  • Tools for handling high throughput sequencing data like (samtools)
  • To get gene data sets use a tool such as (Ensemble)
  • Tools for database search systems like (Entrez)

Statistical Skills – You need to learn:

  • Statistical software systems such as SPSS and SAS
  • How to do statistical analyses with Python or R

Programming Skills – You should be familiar with:

  • One or more of these programming languages: R, Perl, Python, Java and Matlab
  • Machine learning tools and libraries such as Mllib and Scikit-Learn in python are very useful to learn

Biology Knowledge – This requirement will vary according to your domain of study or the particular job you are applying to. You will most likely need knowledge about molecular biology, genetics, cancer biology, and/or modern biology.

Genomic and Genetic Knowledge – This knowledge is the core of bioinformatics. Some of the most important skills are high-throughput sequencing, next generation sequencing, and computational genomics.

Database Management- This  requirement includes traditional relational databases which is the basis of SQL (e.g., SQL Server and Oracle). You also should know about NoSQL databases which are non-relational, distributed, open-source, and horizontally scalable (e.g., MongoDB). Finally, there are big data databases (e.g., TCGA) and big data analytics databases (e.g., Vertica) you should learn about.

Data Mining and Machine Learning- Learning techniques like hierarchical clustering and decision trees is also useful.

General Skills – There are important additional skills such as multitasking, independence, good communication skills, curiosity, analytical reasoning and managerial skills.


So these are the skills required to be a Bioinformatician.All the best for your future.


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