Bioinformatics of course! Nowadays biology is a data rich (think Big Data) discipline and in order to make important discoveries requires powerful computers and complex software.
All aspects of biology benefit from computation – we’re in new age of discovery.
Hi @enderking134
My fave field is genetics. But Im most interested in the impact of genetic technology on people rather than the science itself. Just because we can do a genetic test for something, does it mean we should? This is what I research.
For example, you can do a genetic test to see if someone has a chance of getting breast cancer. Sounds like a good idea because you could then prevent the cancer for happening. But what about testing children or even embryos for the same breast cancer gene?
Should we get rid of embryos because they have the genes for breast cancer? If the answer is yes, what about every other gene we could test for, there are thousands of them. Where does it end? That’s my fave bit of researching genetics.
Evolutionary biology–it’s a great mix of maths and biology. I love trying to think on evolutionary timescales, because most evolution happens so slowly that we can’t even imagine it.
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Thanks!