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Date:      Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:46:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        William Gordon Rutherdale <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why??  (prog question)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOC.4.64.0904021345200.6809@libra.sfsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8663hnalxk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
>>> Have you considered combining the two (computer science and
>>> molecular biology) and going into bioinformatics?
>> disaster.  data mining people don't give a @*&# about the facts.
>
> I'm not sure to whom you refer as "data mining people".  If you think
> bioinformatics is about data mining, you are sorely mistaken.

I am well aware of the difference.  There are people publishing
in the journal Bioinformatics that have medical knowledge, and there
are others with math and statistics only who publish in the
same journal thinking there is no need for any medical knowledge.
That is a second hand quote.

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