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EducationA Quick Guide for Developing Effective BioinformaticsProgramming SkillsJoel T. Dudley1,2,3*, Atul J. Butte2,31Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America,2Department of Pediatrics, Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America,3Lucile Packard Children s Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of AmericaIntroductionBioinformatics programming skills arebecoming a necessity across many facets ofbiology and medicine, owed in part to thecontinuing explosion of biological dataaggregation and the complexity and scaleof questions now being addressed throughmodern Bioinformatics . Although manyare now receiving formal training inbioinformatics through various universitydegree and certificate programs, thistraining is often focused strongly onbioinformatics methodology, leaving manyimportant and practical aspects of bioin-formatics to self-education and following set of guidelines distillseveral key principals of Effective bioinfor-matics programming , which the authorslearned through insights gained acrossmany years of combined experience de-veloping popular Bioinformatics softwareapplications and database systems in bothacademic and commercial settings [1 6].

Education A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills Joel T. Dudley1,2,3*, Atul J. Butte2,3 1Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University

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