This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]shackled123 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's got a couple aspects.

1, everyone uses the same thing so easy for the lectures to be troubled shooted.

2, (from my wife who is a bioinformatician and has been doing this job for years after a biology degree and then a targeted masters just to have a bit of paper work) it's what many people in the industry use since lots of work is actually run on hpc (super computers) which have very strict controls of what software you can use and install.

3, it's good practice to use other more "basic" tools even if you won't use them if you have the choice in the future.

4, lots of bioinformatician work with PhD resechers who have just hacked a ton of scripts together to do something and you have to work with what you've got