points by reedwhistle 3 days ago | 0 comments
Ive been interested in exploring other domains as well, including biology, genomics, etc. Do you have any recommendations on where to get started?
[–] iqbal1980 2 days ago
[–] globular-toast 3 days ago
For genomics, look into viruses, in particular RNA viruses like influenza and HIV. You can fit the entire genome on your screen and learn to read it like code! There are some good text books about viruses that include genomics from scratch (I can't find the one I used now but could look later if you're interested). My advice would be to learn the biology first and understand why we care about genomes before looking into the computational stuff.
I feel that this book is clearly written and will give you all prerequisites to continue in a biotech, bioinformatics, computational biology or even biology graduate program if you come from a different discipline.
Good luck!