You joke, but I work adjacent to biotech and by God, research groups working on engineering new genetic variants could really do with learning programming and suffering until they can do version control. I’m not saying use git (or equivalent) for the actual research, just that there needs to be some way of coordinating versions when you’re working iteratively and in a team
“Why aren’t our primers binding? Wait, where the hell did all those alanines come from? God damnit, we’ve wasted that batch now. Did you at least order some new primers from the supplier? Oh, you still need to design them? SOMEONE COULD HAVE HELPED IF YOU’D ASKED”
You joke, but I work adjacent to biotech and by God, research groups working on engineering new genetic variants could really do with learning programming and suffering until they can do version control. I’m not saying use git (or equivalent) for the actual research, just that there needs to be some way of coordinating versions when you’re working iteratively and in a team
“Why aren’t our primers binding? Wait, where the hell did all those alanines come from? God damnit, we’ve wasted that batch now. Did you at least order some new primers from the supplier? Oh, you still need to design them? SOMEONE COULD HAVE HELPED IF YOU’D ASKED”