2006 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript
This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2006. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.
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Do you enjoy your job?
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Tyra Wolfsberg, Ph.D.: Yes, I do. When I was in college, I was working on a project that involved analyzing the A's, C's, G's, and T's in a DNA sequence. There weren't many computer programs around to do this type of work, like there are today, so I spent a lot of time either looking at the sequences, or writing them on a piece of paper. I realized that I really enjoyed staring at these letters and trying to make sense of the patterns that they spelled out. In graduate school, I moved on to looking at protein sequences, which have 20 different letters. I've been lucky to find a job doing bioinformatics, where I can continue to look at these letters, both in DNA and in protein, and actually get paid for it. |
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