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Boston Women in Bioinformatics

Advancing Women in Bioinformatics by Creating Networks of Support, Collaboration, and Empowerment.

2025-2026 Cohort Coming Soon!

Career Mentorship Program

Empowering women in bioinformatics to advance into leadership roles across academia and industry.

We're finalizing matches and can't wait to kick off this pilot program. Stay tuned!

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Participate in Our Community Study

Are you a bioinformatician, computational biologist, or working in an adjacent field? Boston Women in Bioinformatics (BWIB) is conducting a national survey to better understand the landscape of our field. This survey is for everyone, not just women, and only takes ~5 minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous and will be used for community-driven research and programming.[~5 min]

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Consolidation paradox: One platform promises less complexity but creates new problems. More tools does not always mean more problems. Optimize for workflows, not org charts.

The Tool Consolidation Paradox

Why Fewer Tools Often Means More Complexity

Festive holiday tree decorated with bioinformatics pipeline error messages, representing the chaos of debugging during the holiday season

The Twelve Days of Scale-Up

A festive tune of crashed jobs caroling in the key of why.

Lifecycle comparison between software and a microscope both bought in 2020. The software becomes outdated faster and needs maintenance more often.

Software Doesn't Age Like Wine

Why Your Data Tools Need Maintenance (And What That Really Means)

Interviews can either lead to a job offer or a professional connections and both are considered wins.

Interviewing Is Networking in Disguise

The real win in interviewing is the network you grow along the way.