in reply to How to Contribute to Perl+Science

Contact a university (possibly in the neighbourhood, always good to get to know people) and offer help, in exchange for the domain knowledge.

Don't underestimate the latter; the biology that feeds the bioinformatics field is hugely diverse, and I think the main problem is often to have people who understand the biology *and* the molecular biology techniques *and* know some programming (*and* can mix them creatively).

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Re^2: How to Contribute to Perl+Science
by PerlSufi (Friar) on Oct 17, 2014 at 14:29 UTC
    Thanks, erix. That certainly seems like the most hands-on and direct approach. At this point, I simply 'know some programming', but I have not been formally trained in the other areas such as molecular biology- so it may be hard to know what exactly is desired without actually talking to someone working with it.