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cing on July 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his spee...

I worked at a bioinformatics co-op job for 8 months about 4 years ago. I had fun, but my main impression was that the field is a major clusterf*ck of databases and data management. I think you could take this list as evidence for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics_workflow_managem...

tom_b on July 27, 2011 [–]

This is definitely true. I deal with unstructured data, and every flavor of data storage weekly (XML, Access, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, a few MS SQL Server instances, Excel, and plain text).

<edit> oh, and forget about stuff being normalized or making any sense . . .

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