/r/bioinformatics/

r/bioinformatics

166k members
r/bioinformatics is a subreddit with 166k 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, academic, discussion, career question, and other.
## A subreddit to discuss the intersection of computers and biology. ------ 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

#1
Pevsner
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Compeau
4.0 from 1 review
#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
: "Is bioinformatics migrating fully to python? (and various other questions from a beginner)"
67 posts
#2
academic
: "My CMU computational biology colleague is teaching his algorithms course live starting Thursday, free"
21 posts
#3
discussion
: "BioMart has been quietly discontinued by Ensembl"
20 posts
#4
career question
: "Are bash and R still relevant for bioinformatics jobs?"
10 posts
#5
other
: "Access to Release 23 of miRBase"
5 posts
#6
compositional data analysis
: "Need help in Single-cell CRISPR screen data analysis"
4 posts
#7
article
: "Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas With Precomputed Molecular Effect Predictions and AVI Scores for 9 Billion Human DNA Variants"
3 posts
#8
image
: "Haha what a loser language haha"
2 posts
#9
programming
: "Single cell / Seurat visualizations for 1 gene and 2 variables?"
2 posts
#10
advertisement
: "OpenOmicsBench - 12 validated bulk RNA-seq benchmarks for testing analysis software"
1 post

Member Growth in r/bioinformatics

Yearly
+24k members(16.6%)

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Last updated: September 16, 2026