The Business in Scientific Publishing!?
Despite a limited audience, scientific publishing has become a big business. You see scientific journals increasing on a daily basis apart from the predatory ones. They publish your scientific articles with open access. However, the business model employed in scientific publishing is rather confusing.
Bioinformatics- Is It a ‘Magical’ Research Field?!
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field we all are aware of that. It has grown a lot since the last decade. It is often considered as an adjunctive field of biological research. That is also true because earlier this field was new and hadn’t been explored much. But nowadays, it is not the same anymore.
Bioinformatics is prediction- and simulation-based: Let’s rephrase the conversation!
Since the field of Bioinformatics has come into existence, general opinion has been that ‘Bioinformatics is all about predictions, experimental-based, and talking everything in the imagination’, or ‘the probabilistic outcomes must be approved in real world’ or ‘ the Bioinformatics results will have to be testified using the wet lab’. This indeed is true, all the predictions made by […]
Do we need more bioinformaticists or bioinformaticians?
As we all know the major difference between a bioinformaticist and a bioinformatician is that a bioinformaticist is an expert in developing software, tools, interfaces for effective use of these tools with a pure knowledge of their usage, on the other hand, a bioinformatician is a skilled person with knowledge of the application of these […]