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!

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

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.

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

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.