r/bioinformatics is a subreddit with 168k 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, other, and website.
## 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 have these results, but so what?"
33 posts
#2
academic
: "A Nextflow pipeline for hybrid yeast WGS over my 2nd-year summer — how our lab handled subgenome routing + a question on negative branch lengths"
17 posts
#3
discussion
: "More things to be aware (again)..."
12 posts
#4
other
: "Biomedical Research Intern- Need human answers to my problem in analysing Reactome GSEA Pathway, KEGG GSEA Pathway and DEG."
5 posts
#5
website
: "NCBI sequence retrieval broken?"
3 posts
#6
career question
: "Seeking volunteer bioinformatics / computational biology opportunities, UK and EU right to work"
3 posts
#7
programming
: "I am not able to get NANUQ to work for my species"
2 posts
#8
science question
: "Is Metascape reliable for non-mammalian model organisms like C. elegans?"
1 post
#9
article
: "Spatial multi-omics and AI for decoding tumor heterogeneity: implications for target discovery and therapy resistance"
1 post
#10
advertisement
: "NGS Variants analysis in cancer"
1 post
Member Growth in r/bioinformatics
Yearly
+23k members(15.8%)
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Last updated: October 31, 2026