TechBlog: Mike Goodstadt: A circuitous route to bioinformatics

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Most coders come to bioinformatics by one of two routes. They’re either biologists skilled in programming, or programmers with an interest in biology. Mike Goodstadt, the programmer behind the genome-visualization tool TADkit, took a different approach.

In the early-to-mid 1990s, Goodstadt was a student at the University of Bath in the UK. His course of study: Architecture. Continue reading