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I am a masters students in applied maths. My background is maths and biology. I a planning on doing a phd next year but i am having a hard time deciding which field to go into. I was think of either computational biology/bioinformatics or mathematical biology(eg modelling tumor growth). I terms of feature prospects which of the two is more viable. Thank you!

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sorry the last line should read:"I terms of future prospects which of the two is more viable. Thank you!"

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they are all just about the same thing at Phd level. be more specific on the areas you are interested in ... sequence/structural modelling, statistics, microarrays. systems biology... or think about what university department you would be happy in as this will best reveal the emphasis of the phd.

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Companies like people who can program and implement existing research so "Bioinformatics"

Researcher Institutes like analytical minds so maths/computational biology

If by prospects you mean money, I would neither.

I would stick to the math's side as those skills are probably more rare.

Though I strongly reccommend being in a Biology/Biochemistry department rather than being tagged onto a maths/computer science department

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Thanks Pp. I will probably stick to maths hopefully i can find a good project to work on in mathematical biology so that i can be in a bio department or at least get collaboration.

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