From bioinformatics scientist to geneticist
35 of the 53 essential skills of a geneticist are already essential for a bioinformatics scientist — about 66% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 35
- skills carry over
- 18
- would be new
- 66%
- of the target job covered
- 53
- essential skills of a geneticist
What a geneticist does
Geneticists study and focus their research on genetics. They analyse the fashion in which genes interact, operate, and inherit traits and characteristics. Based on their research, they attend patients with inherited diseases and conditions, congenital malformations, and genetic matters at large.
What carries over
35 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- biology
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- genomics
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific literature
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
What would be new
18 skillsEssential for a geneticist and not for a bioinformatics scientist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- biotechnology
- conduct genome research
- cryopreservation
- decide on type of genetic testing
- evaluate genetic data
- genetic engineering
- genetics
- interpret laboratory data in medical genetics
- interpret pedigree charts
- medical genetics
- microbiology-bacteriology
- neoplasia
- perform laboratory tests
- report analysis results
- scientific research methodology
- stem cells
- tissue cytogenetics
- undertake research in medical genetics
Other moves from bioinformatics scientist
2 roles- statistician36 skills in common
- analytical chemist35 skills in common
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How far are you from being a geneticist?
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