r/bioinformatics is a subreddit with 162k members. The community frequently discusses bioinformatics, struggling, rna seq, phd, and time, and they frequently recommend/review statistics book, remote desktop software, and softwares, and the most common flair used is technical question, discussion, academic, career question, and other.
## A subreddit to discuss the intersection of computers and biology.
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A subreddit dedicated to bioinformatics, computational genomics and systems biology.
Popular Topics in r/bioinformatics
#1
Bioinformatics
154 posts
#2
Struggling
24 posts
#3
Rna Seq
21 posts
#4
Phd
15 posts
#5
Time
14 posts
#6
Genomics
10 posts
#7
Scrnaseq
9 posts
#8
Satsang
8 posts
#9
Career
8 posts
#10
Frustrating
6 posts
Products Discussed in r/bioinformatics
Statistics Book
2 reviews
#1
Pevsner
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Compeau
4.0★ from 1 review
Remote Desktop Software
2 reviews
#1
RemotePC
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
TeamViewer
4.0★ from 1 review
Softwares
1 review
#1
AlphaFold
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/bioinformatics
#1
technical question
: "I’ve reviewed probably 200 “bioinformatics pipelines” at this point. Maybe 15 were actually reproducible."
81 posts
#2
discussion
: "I’m losing my passion for this field because of LLM prevalence!"
35 posts
#3
academic
: "Publication reputation"
23 posts
#4
career question
: "Do you need to be good at everything in bioinformatics?"
9 posts
#5
other
: "Open-sourced a reproducible protein-ligand binding affinity model built entirely from RCSB’s public API, no PDBbind license needed"
9 posts
#6
programming
: "ggwas — a ggplot2-native R package for GWAS visualization (17 plot types, journal themes, 9x faster than qqman)"
8 posts
#7
article
: "COMBINE-lab - Fable is not a useful model"
4 posts
#8
science question
: "Are agents like Claude Science any useful to biologists?"
4 posts
#9
website
: "A better search app for the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)"
4 posts
#10
job posting
: "I keep applying to positions and not hearing back, I'm starting to think its my resume. Can anyone help, I just graduated :["
3 posts
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Yearly
+24k members(17.5%)
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Last updated: July 22, 2026