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发帖数: 938 | 1 不知道一个PhD背景是纯“wet lab”（细胞生物学）的fresh graduate能不能申请到系
统生物学的薄厚。。。对这一行非常感兴趣 也非常想学些新的approach 但是不知道这
种背景能对将来的实验室有什么贡献。。。苦闷中。。。。 请大家不吝赐教！ 谢谢！ |
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发帖数: 310 | 2 I think to get into the field, you have to have some basic programming skill
first, by either taking some courses or learn yourself.
Largely speaking, there are two broad areas under the general theme of
systems biology, both requiring some quantitative skills. (1)The omics stuff
including mapping and inferring molecular networks. The computational
skills involved are mostly statistical and bioinformatic; (2) Modeling
molecular networks as dynamical systems.Dynamical modeling involves
approaches |
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发帖数: 938 | 3 thank you very much for your detailed reply. I will definitely look into the
books you have recommended, as I acutally strongly agree with you that
after all these years of cell biology training, my knockledge of maths and
physics were almost all diluted out... hopefully I will catch up soon...
Thanks again for your time and help! |
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发帖数: 310 | 4 This is the phrase I would like to use to describe ourselves:" The hard-
learned mathematical skills in their (biology phds) early college years
gradually dissolve away with every pipetting chore."
I tried to put that phrase into a paper we recently wrote, but one of my co-
authors thought it was too derogative, which may offend some biologists. So
I pulled it out. But it is so true.
the
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: thank you very much for your detailed reply. I will definitely look into the
: books you have recommended, as I acutally strongly agree with you that
: after all these years of cell biology training, my knockledge of maths and
: physics were almost all diluted out... hopefully I will catch up soon...
: Thanks again for your time and help!
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发帖数: 938 | 5 lol I love your original statement, which was very much like my own
description as "diluted out", and it was so vivid when you mentioned the
pipetting.... in my personal opinion, it is really an unfortunate fact, sad,
dark but true, at least for people like myself... sigh.... |
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发帖数: 310 | 6 But you should not be intimated by our handicapped math skills. It will be
slow at the beginning, but you will catch up if you are highly motivated. I
personally feel that there are a lot that can be explored as a research
topic using the math we have had so far.
sad,
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: lol I love your original statement, which was very much like my own
: description as "diluted out", and it was so vivid when you mentioned the
: pipetting.... in my personal opinion, it is really an unfortunate fact, sad,
: dark but true, at least for people like myself... sigh....
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发帖数: 938 | 7 thank you for your encouraging words. I will try hard on this. |
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发帖数: 310 | 8 Another suggestion that may get you jump-start into the field is to attend a
workshop. You may get lost in the workshop, but at least you know what
people are doing hands-on. I started this way.
You may start by something like the one offered at cold spring harbor: http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-comp10.shtml
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: thank you for your encouraging words. I will try hard on this.
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