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Science has changed so much from the time that I entered it. I actually started to college using a slide reel to do calculations.
Computers were these enormous things that took up entire rooms and you had to write this language that just didn't make sense to most people. In today's world,
science has changed dramatically because of computational power. This is a field that will continue to grow for the future.
We encourage all of our students to get training in computational biology. It's just become the same kind of tool that molecular biology became about twenty years ago.
Initially, only a few labs did it; now everyone is doing molecular biology. The same thing is happening with computation. The people who could actually use the programs
and even design brand new ones will find that the future is unlimited. One of the students who came to our summer undergraduate program came back and got a PhD.
He wrote some amazing computer programs to be able to identify structures in molecules that you couldn't crystallize. They actually had good enough structures
now that they could see where the atoms were placed without ever crystallizing the molecules. That maker's programs are going to
revolutionize the development of targeted drugs that will do exactly what we want them to do without negative side effects.