Things I would tell a budding bioinformatician to learn.

I recently read Ewan Birney's blog post, which I found echoed a lot of my own thoughts about the use of statistical in computational biology. I thought I would compile my own similar list but for bioinformatics  / computational biology in general. I have not been and in the field as long as Ewan and I certainly still have a lot to learn, particularly about statistics due to my biological background, but I have learnt some things over the last ten years, that like Ewan, I wish someone had told me long ago.  The points are in no particular order.

BODE on sourceforge

Some member of my group at work have started a sourceforge site where we can post bits and pieces of code that others may find useful. The hope is also that this will encourage us to write better code with better documentation. Lets see.

It is called BODE for Bioinformatics ODds and Ends.