At present individuals tend to enter the field from a range of undergraduate backgrounds (most commonly, biosciences, mathematics or computer science) by either learning appropriate skills and knowledge ‘on the job’ or undertaking postgraduate training. The multidisciplinary nature of bioinformatics requires practitioners to be flexible to learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge (e.g. programming languages or biology) as the scope of the data and analyses with which they are working evolve.
It is less common for bioinformaticians joining the healthcare sphere to have experience of clinical genetics and operation of the healthcare system. The recent NHS scientific training programme (STP) in bioinformatics and clinical bioinformatics is designed to be a training route for bioinformaticians within clinical specialties.
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