Slowly but surely information is coming together but the entire domain of bioinformatics is very new to me, even with a clinical background. It is very hard to follow the concepts being taught when I can't apply them. It would be helpful for me to understand how these tests are even set up, how a microarray is set up (actually see it happen) and then walk through seeing how the information is presented, the tools being used for data mining, etc. Having it just in lecture is very difficult to understand without applying some of these methods in a lab setting.
At least there is repetitive use of some common terms which are slowly being understood but I feel to truly understand bioinformatics in a short term of a master's program is rather difficult without having an undergraduate focus. This is probably the same though for non-clinical people in understanding clinical informatics so I truly understand the frustration others have in trying to focus on an area where they have no expertise.
Posted by : Debbie Carter
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