by Lincoln Stein
VISION	What's Next for Bioinformatics? As new paradigms evolve, model organism databases could be on the way out Email: Lincoln Stein - lstein@cshl.edu The Scientist 2005, 19(10):31 Published   23 May 2005

I slipped into bioinformatics through the back door. In 1992, while completing my pathology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, I became frustrated with my inability to combine my love of biological research with my hobby of tinkering with computers and developing software. So when I was offered the opportunity to spend a summer working with the software group at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, I jumped at it.

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