Adventures with the

Jack of all TradesAttaching experiments to your

computational laboratory

Trey Ideker UC San Diego

Benefits of an experimental laboratory

•Puts you in touch with biology like no other method – CS connections are seen naturally•Puts you in control of your experimental design•Puts you in control of your validation•Way harder to get scooped

Frustrations• Needs massive investment of your time. Debugging lab work

is slow!

• Need to obtain the necessary space and money.

• Need to expand focus = more to worry about.

• Curse of the ‘Jack of all trades’ – Specialized biologist collaborators will always be better than you

• Specialized computer science collaborators will always be better than you

Other ModelsHost lab

1:1 collaborations

Many:many collaborations (consortia)