Five steps for getting started with bioinformatics 

5 steps 1:34 learn python 4:05 do courses 5:27 statistics 7:38 command line 9:03 science

Yes you’re back! You’ve been a big reason why I’m a PhD student studying bioinformatics.

Thanks a lot. I am a PhD Student working on plant genome assembly and annotation. Your video is very hepfull for me. I have no background in bioinformatics. So I struggle a lot. "Learning by doing" in South Korea. No help..no support...It is very hard. But I keep going. RU-vid, github, and R plateforms help me a lot. Thanks again

Thanks for coming back! Good to see you're uploading again.

Maria, thanks for coming back. Your videos are outstanding and I am sure everyone wanting to learn more about BFx is thrilled you are creating videos again. Thanks for the links!

Recent CS grad, newly interested in this field. Your videos have been so helpful, thank you!

Oh my, such valuable videos here. I just graduated with a bachelors in Biology and I am stuck on how to move forward. Trying to find a specialization or skill that I want to learn and apply moving forward to get a job, and I feel like bioinformatics can be extremely useful in todays biotechnology industry. Will definitely look into it based on what you said in this video. Thank you so much ur a geniussss

Thanks for coming back! I watched your video from the beginning until the last seconds, and I loved it! I really like your passion for real science and the way you express your ideas. You're so lovely! Good luck in your job! Stay Healthy!

You are one of those rare people who can explain and present bio soo beautifully. I watched one of your seminar recently and that was one of the best presentation i have seen. Thank you very much for that!

You're helping me figure out what skills I need to develop before applying for grad school! Thank you for this channel and the helpful videos.

Thanks Maria. I am from Africa and there seem to be a dearth of bioinformaticians on the continent. Your videos inspire and I am considering going into Bioinformatics after my PhD (Microbiology).

Hell yes! You are back ? Thanks so much fore inspiring me to start my own channel!

Your videos have helped me so much, I’m currently an 18 year old apprentice working in a cell engineering R&D group. I started looking at bioinformatics and now I’m hooked, I’m learning python and hope to start applying some programs in my everyday lab work.

Another useful and thoughtful video thanks a lot! And as a beginner, I definitely recommend Rosalind, problems in there really helpful to understand how python or in general programming languages work. But beware hours and hours long of mind-games are waiting for you ! :D

Really good practical advice. Thank you for sharing and providing links

Good to see after you long break in good health. It was a good platform for student who want to do bioinformatics. Thanks

This video was amazingly helpful with my research proposal for my final year project! Thank you

Thanks a lot, Maria. This video provides a lot of direction. I immediately clicked on this video once I went to check in on my subscriptions.

I got an encouragement for learning bioinformatics from your channel. Please make more VDOs.

OMGG, I miss so much your videos. I am in my junior year of bioengineering in Peru and I super interested in bioinformatics. Your videos have helped me so much to start learning the basics of this wonderful set of tools. Thank you and I wish you the best in all your projects.

Good to see you posting again!

Thank you very much for this valuable tips. I am starting my journey in bioinformatics and this information sets up a good basis to work from.

Nice to have you back !!! You are my mentor.

Thanks a million! You don’t know how much this was helpful for me. Please keep up the good work

GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN! All the best wishes to you!

This is incredible helpful! Thank you for posting. You've made things easier for me.

Thank you for this video. Really needed some guidance 🙏

Your videos are very helpful for non bioinformatician like me. Cheers! Please more videos.

Hello, Thanks a lot for your video. This was extremely helpful. I am applying to grad school for PhD in Computational Biology, I am mathematician myself. My potential projects is inclined towards modelling and simulation for genomics. Video had great ideas for beginner. P.S. Can you please make a video on how students from Maths, Computer Science and Physics can get into Biology research?

Hi María, welcome back and thanks for ur videos :)

Very helpful.....happy that you are back

Hi, is wonderful to see you again, please don´t disappear any more. Your courses are amazing. Best

Great. You are back 👍 Hope you will find enough time to prepare such interesting educational videos. Take care

Interesting how some things does not change - I did my Ph.D. 35 years ago and had the same experience reading papers in the beginning feeling frustrated because at the time almost all papers contradicted each other and it was hard to reproduce data

This was superrrr helpful. Thank you so much!

I’ve just got into bioinformatics PhD. Got my first meeting today. Feeling this is a new step in my life. Im so excited

I am done with my masters in Human genetics and I am really confused as to whether I should be pursuing a phD in computational biology. This video was really helpful for me as I do think it gave me a place to start and see if bioinformatics is my thing

Thanks for the great recommendations, and for the nice ending!

Thanks for this video. You've given me a headstart.

Thank you. Very down to earth and helpful.

You're amazing thank you for helping me start my Bioinformatics project 😊

Thank you! your videos really helps me to start on Bioinformatic. Greeting from Indonesia :D

You are so helpful to everyone :) thank u so much I hope you will achieve your goal :) greetings from Turkey

Thanks, I would like see more contento like this! 😀

Really helpful, great you're back!

Thank you for the roadmap. It really does provide many helpful tips, but please note that the command line is not a language. It's a user interface.

My adviser speak to me about this career but I don’t know where start, I want to work with medical area and also biology I never thought in bioinformatics, thank for your channel

I'm a master student in Life Science Informatics in Germany, I haven't much clue about my course because it is also Bioinformatics but different name. Thank you soooo muchhh for your informative videos, your information make clear my vision and show me path in my educational carrier. Thank you again, Greetings from Germany by Indian Heart.

Yes! Your videos introduced me to the topic that I wasn't aware even existed. I am visually impaired, and was trying to go for wet lab science work, and it just doesn't work out. I think this would be a much better fit for me. I'd like to use bioinformatics and genomics to learn more about my visual impairment. There is very little known right now. Thinking about reaching out to universities in other countries who study it for some of their insights and maybe even data? Thoughts?

Practically speaking, I would recommend learning linux/bash and python together to head start, because real projects need you to run various bioinformatics programs in the linux environment. The first stumble you would encounter is to set up your computer environment and installing those program can be a pain in the ass.

This video was very helpful for me, thank you so much 🎉

Thank you so very much for the time well invested. I am new to the field but with this great introduction, I'll make it.

I received some financial help to do a Phd in bioinformatics, I would have rejected the whole thing (coz bioinformatics seemed completely intractable at first) if it wasn't for your encouraging words. Much love and respect

You are awesome. Please make more vidoes. I subscribed since you are very honest and clear. Thanks a lot. If you are my lecturer or a friend I will love it.

Thank you very much! it was so helpful video to know from where to begin. ☺🙏

I completed graduation, postgraduation in bioinformatics and am currently doing ph.D in bioinformatics .

Since this video is for beginners and as Maria is welcoming people to share, here's my first hand experience from learning programming to actually getting published. First, I went through an Introduction to Python course that got me familiar with loops, conditions, lists, arrays and dataframes. Now this was proving more than difficult because I had no practical way to apply what I was learning. So I went directly to the last step. Papers! Found some articles that were fairly easy for me to understand. From these I found some web based tools with simple use cases that generated data. After understanding what these tools were doing, I figured I should try to reproduce the papers using my newly earned python skill, mostly dataframes and csv module. What I did unique was I used my own sample space. So I didn't reproduce the experiments, I reproduced the experimental model on a different sample set. 3 months later, I had a concrete dataset, and I had learned the basic statistical values from those papers to extrapolate new information from my samples. While this was on going I contacted one of my professors who had used Bioinformatics tools in his own work. He suggested i publish my findings. Fast forward another 3 months and I had my first publication. All from my own computer, without getting inside a lab or doing wet work. Not bragging or anything. Seemed like this was a good place to share my journey for others to learn from or at least get started. Ps. Currently working on a script that can eliminate most of the manual work I had to do so I can work with larger sample spaces. I also wanted to find an alternative to the web-based tools. There are python modules that work ofline on your computer so you won't have to get on the web. Cheers Link to my paper: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835092/

Welcome back. I have only you as a mentor in bioinformatics

Thanks a lot i am a UG student pursuing bioinformatics

Thank you!! I'm a Master student about to start my thesis with bioinformatics and was feeling very lost, but this video really helped :)

Loved the vid! I'm a cell biologist turned data scientist and now I want to move into bioinformatics. Are there any specific projects/problems that you'd recommend to start with when building up a bioinformatics portfolio? Thanks very much looking forward to more :)

I just came across your video while search for a way to get started in the bioinformatics field with no support to plug into, i must this is like a compass i really appreciate your effort. I would really appreciate it if you could help with links to learn this python in details, if possible free links to study the python programming and other areas as well once again thank you so much look forward to more videos

Video was great, thank you, keep it up.

hey! I loved the information you shared. I am a Statistics undergrad and I want to explore the bioinformatics field. I know python, SAS and SPSS and basics in other languages. I dont know any biology. How should I explore the field as a beginner?

Thanks a lot, you have been very clear. Bravo

this is really helpful. thank you

Very encouraging and inspiring! subbed!

Could you please introduce a quick reference for computer scientists in order to get familiar with basic and essential biology concepts?

👋 watching from Egypt, very helpful thanks

Hi! Very interesting channel! I am interested in learning bioinformatics :) My background is in biology! Thank you, you give very good and clear points to start with!

Hello, Maria, I really love your videos, and I am doing my master's in bioinformatics. I am wondering if you could answer my few questions. As I am actually doing a master's in the molecular biology department, I have no guidance from my advisor. Thanks a lot.

This is the video that I needed 🙏🙏🙏

Thankyou so much I was enjoying the five tips a lot because I’m a sophomore in college but the ending really hit different for me as a young Afro-American I appreciate your amazing content please keep at it when you have the time #notificationsquad

Thanks for video. I wish to construct Multi-Gene Phylogenetic tree. Im not getting where to start for Mr. Bayes, RAxML..etc..Can u make an video on that please?

Good evening OMGenomics, I am currently a student in Machine learning in Cameroon and as part of a project I would like to set up a model capable of predicting the behavior of proteins expressed by cancer cells when they are subjected to certain drugs. But I am a bit lost on the approach to adopt, I would like to please have some advice (What is the dataset to use?, the most appropriate models?, how to manage negative examples? etc)

I am considering doing bioinformatics for my masters however I’m not sure what to major in. I don’t wanna do research so I haven’t considered biology as my major. I am currently torn between data science and biomedical engineering (with bioinfo concentration available at both majors). I do not know which would provide a stronger foundation especially since I wanna work a corporate job. Any advice on this would be much appreciated.

Great Work Maria!!

Is it possible to start as a field service engineer working with analyzer and studying biology/CS. CURRENTLY on the field working on instruments. Thanks 👍

Can you do a video on the scope of BioInformatics in the industry currently in 2020, and has the Pandemic put an effect in this field ? Also, how to find a job in this field ? And do I need to have a degree in BioInformatics to get into the field ?

Thank you so much, this was extremely helpful. I was feeling overwhelmed and this video made me feel better. I now feel more confident to pursue a Master's Degree in Bioinformatics. I was wondering if you can explain how your work is day to day. Do you work with many different health professionals or mostly alone ? Is it fast paced or demanding? Thanks

Hi Maria good to see you back. It seems you no longer recommend learning R. Any specific reason for that?

Im currently in medical school and start a computer science major soon during med school. What would you recommend to practice before starting the new bachelor?

Thanks for back!

Very informative, thanks a lot. I have done Ph.D in Botany from an Indian University and was working in agricultural research. I have to leave that for some personal reasons (as I am preparing to start a family 😄) and now I am interested in big data analytics in my field. Can u recommend any online course that I can persue so that it can help me getting a job in biological data analytics in coming years?

Hi, I have electronic engineer background and I have been working as software developer since since 2015. I am fluent in Java, C#, bash script. Recently, I am studying biology and trying to change my career to bioinformatics. So what would you recommend to a person who already knows programming? Should I still need to learn python? What field should I focus on biology and statistics?

Thanks so much for the video! I'm going to the 11 grade - the last grade in Russia and really like bioinformatics and genetic engineering. I passed a course on Python and a lot of biological courses, but I have no idea about bash courses. Could anyone help?

Excellent video !

Hi Dear, Thanks for this great video, I started my career in economic and doing R since 5 year but want to switch to clinical research (cr) do you thing doing project related to Bioinformatic will help me to get in to CR related jobs

Thank you 🙏🏼

Merci beaucoup pour l'orientation.

I love the video , thanks for sharing it

This was super helpful, I'm so glad you made this video. This has helped a lot in informing my career decisions!

I'm a computer engineer, with background in hardware design and web development, a Linux user for a lifetime and I found your channel. Your focus is more on people who have enough background in biology, can you explain what a computer engineer needs to learn to become a bioinformatics?

This is a strange question... I have my Bachelors in Biology and have been working in a Microbiology lab for +4 years but realized I dont have an interest in working in wet labs anymore and have always had an interest in Bioinformatics. Will I have to go back to college or can I learn to code, build a list of projects/resume, and get my foot in the door? I really don't want to go back to college (expensive obv) and I'm curious if not having my masters is a deal breaker for companies?

Thank you 💖

what are the bigest problems that you see in the bioinformatic field? I mean, talking about people preparation, better equipment maybe the disconection between the people that desing the experiment and the person that just analyze data witout thakin other considerations

you are so great, following you from now, give us some of your time

it was really good video thank you

Yes! More videos! 🥰

very informative video , i most certainly got a handfull