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Computational Biologist Interview Questions
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statistics/programming question and questions about my research
What's the definition of p-value What's set and tuple in python
"tell me about yourself," "where do you see yourself in 5 years," etc.
A specific question about machine learning was asked.
Why do you want to work in cancer research?
Which Roche drugs do you know? Which areas of specialization does Roche have?
explain your projects in detail
What types of -omics data have you worked on? Given the interest to work in Pharma, why did you not try to work on some human/medical data during your PhD? What was the last computational biology paper that you liked? Could you explain the work of the ENCODE project? How can GWAS be used to infer causality? How to design a best practice system for NGS data analysis? Given FASTQ files produced by a collaborator, how can you get differentially expressed genes? What strategies can be used to infer causality between differentially methylated regions and differentially expressed transcripts without the need for hundreds of samples?
Questions went the full way from some more algorithmic descriptions to biological questions about study design. The length of the process and diversity of the questions rather than any specific question was a bit tiring for me but it was also the first time in my life I did it.
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