Toolkit Story

Everyone needs a personalised toolkit in order to achieve their goals.

A surgeon needs his tools and team to ensure his patient can undergo a safe and successful operation under him.

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Surgeons_at_Work.jpg

An artist needs his brushes and paints and canvases to produce beautiful paintings.

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A mountaineer needs reliable mountain gears to ensure he arrives at the top of a snowy mountain safely.

Source: http://www.mountainguides.com/photos/gear/backpack-tahoma.jpg

As for me, a PhD probationary kid, I need to achieve part of this network of computational biology.

Source: http://compbio.mit.edu/teaching.jpg

So, the first step is to understand what it is all about, and to find the right tools to start working on it. It seems to me that I am looking more into the area of computational genomics in the sense of biological anthropology these days, so there are a set of tools (packages or whatever one would call that) which I can pack in my imaginary backpack to get me going.

Source: http://www.compbio.cmu.edu/images/background.gif

Will I be able to form a proper research question by the end of my 6 months here? I have another month to ponder about this. While pondering, more packing to be done for the next chapter of my journey...

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