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in thread The STEM quote I most wish I'd made is:
> But it's mostly indirect. Medicine is based on biology.
To put this in context: Most questions about Bioinformatics here come from biologists who switched to programming to avoid (financial) starvation.
Nuff said ;-)
Medical research requires lots of statistics, and I'm too polite to repeat what befriended pharmacologists have to say about the mathematical skills of physicians.
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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