r/bioinformatics is a subreddit with 164k 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.
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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
: "ChatGPT and Codex becoming unusable for biology and bioinf research?"
79 posts
#2
academic
: "Publication reputation"
31 posts
#3
discussion
: "I’m losing my passion for this field because of LLM prevalence!"
30 posts
#4
career question
: "Just did an interview for “bioformatics engineer (genomics)” role where your salary is tied to meeting quota"
9 posts
#5
other
: "Open-sourced a reproducible protein-ligand binding affinity model built entirely from RCSB’s public API, no PDBbind license needed"
7 posts
#6
programming
: "Helpful toolkit from Stanford"
5 posts
#7
science question
: "Are agents like Claude Science any useful to biologists?"
4 posts
#8
statistics
: "Log2 fold change vs Fold Change"
4 posts
#9
job posting
: "Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer"
3 posts
#10
compositional data analysis
: "Have you used Barbell to successfully demux Oxford Nanopore EXP-PBC096 data?"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/bioinformatics
Yearly
+24k members(17.0%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026