Now, you have to understand, to this person a...

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Now, you have to understand, to this person a dataset of 1000 whole genomes is trivial. He said, don’t these students understand that in a few years all the software they wrote to handle these data will be obsolete? They certainly aren’t solving interesting problems in computer science, and in a short time, they won’t be able to solve interesting problems in biology.

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Will Wolfram make bioinformatics obsolete?

Interesting thought, I do not agree with it in that if they learn to program properly they should be able to adapt to the new realities of data processing and mining. Ture, the programs may be obsolete, but the skills should not be.