Ask HN: How to transition into Biotech?

  • Explore few prominent (organic) chemistry softwares in intensive depth eg:

    Chemdraw for creating organic chemical structures, schemes, diagrams/figures, which can be exported to other programs

    SciFinder and Reaxys for searching the chemical literature and doing background research

    Gaussview and Gaussian09 to submit and run DFT or ab initio calculations on molecules

    MestReNova / MestRec

  • I'm in biotech but I'm not a programmer. Have you looked at job listings to see where your experience parallels and where it doesn't?

    From what I've seen many of the programmers with biotech experience don't really have a good understanding of what we do in the lab. Communication is really important.