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Interview with Vivek Iyer

Interview with Vivek Iyer, Wellcome Sanger Institute

In this interview, Victoria talks to Vivek Iyer, head of human genetics informatics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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What do you think of Vivek’s advice to someone planning to become a bioinformatician?

Is there anything else you noticed as interesting from Vivek’s response about the work the bioinformatics involves?

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