Last month, Dr. Hugo Tovar and I were chatting about computational biology and some common missunderstandings we’d experienced:
That all CompBio people are interchangeable in our interests and skills. That we were just waiting around for experimental biologists to share their data with us, with no research interests of our own. That our role was closer to a service core facility than independent research. We took the proactive approach, talked with the head of the department, Dr.