Worryingly, however, the demand for computational biologists is such that the very academics needed to teach interdisciplinary courses that might plug the gap are going into industry, where their skills are more highly remunerated.

ECONOMIST: Drowning in data

The result, according to Larry Hunter, president of the International Society of Computational Biology, is that there is a desperate shortage of specialists capable of developing the computational tools that biologists need.

ECONOMIST: Drowning in data