Career
A career in bioinformatics will offer you excellent long-term
career prospects. In addition to the IT industry, the pharmaceutical
industry, the newly emerging bioinformatics industry and the
biotechnology industry are all in need of the talent bioinformatics
experts can bring to product development and improvement.
According to the statistics from New Scientist, the salaries for
graduates in Bioinformatics are £20-25,000 with an MSc and up to
£30,000 with a PhD. It concludes that "there's no doubt
bioinformatics is a hot topic right now. If you know biology and
love computers, the pay is good and the opportunities are sky high".
The following links provide you with further information should you consider bioinformatics as your future career.
- Bioinformatics career guidance
- The past and future of a career in Bioinformatics
- The Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative
- Bioinformatics in the Netherlands: Thriving and Exciting
- The Future of Bioinformatics
- What is going on for bioinformatics job
- Bioinformatics jobs at Genomejobs
- New scientist job
- Nature job
- Healthmatics
- Industry Outlook