My First Step towards Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is a rising area which combines multiple discipline including Biology, Computer Science, Psychology, Mathematics and Statistics, Chemistry.

Last time I read Biology was in my high school. I was quite good and a topper of the class. Despite of having keen interest in Biological Science that time, I chose Computer Science as my undergrad major to satisfy my intense interest. We did not have graduation degree on Bioinformatics in our country. To be frank, I did not plan to move to Bioinformatics in my undergrad life as well. My target was to learn as much knowledge as possible in the diverse area of Computer Science. When I was exposed to AI, Machine Learning I decided to do MS in this topic. As a consequence, I decided to do major in Intelligent System in my MS. During MS I started to develop an interest in Bioinformatics.

Following my curious mind, I have started digging about cancer and cancer mutation. I have started reading about our primal components like DNA, RNA and proteins. I am trying to understand how mutation works and when it fails, how cancer cell affects normal mutation. I will try to write a separate article regarding cancer genomics in future and some interesting aspect that fascinated me including the resources that helped me.

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