Bioinformatics, a specialism propelled into relevance by the Human Genome Project and the subsequent -omic turn in the life science, is an interdisciplinary field of research. Qualitative work on the disciplinary identities of bioinformaticians has revealed the tensions involved in work in this “borderland.” As part of our ongoing work on the emergence of bioinformatics, between 2010 and 2011, we conducted a survey of United Kingdom-based academic bioinformaticians. Building on insights drawn from our fieldwork over the past decade, we present results from this survey relevant to a discussion of disciplinary generation and stabilization. Not only is there evidence of an attitudinal divide between the different disciplinary cultures that make up bioinformatics, but there are distinctions between the forerunners, founders and the followers; as inter/disciplines mature, they face challenges that are both inter-disciplinary and inter-generational in nature.

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生物信息学的几代跨学科研究


生物信息学是一门由人类基因组计划和随后的生命科学组学转向推动的专业，是一个跨学科的研究领域。对生物信息学家学科身份的定性研究揭示了这个“边境地区”工作中的紧张局势。作为我们正在进行的生物信息学兴起工作的一部分，2010 年至 2011 年间，我们对英国学术生物信息学家进行了一项调查。基于过去十年实地工作的见解，我们提出了与学科生成和稳定讨论相关的这项调查的结果。不仅有证据表明构成生物信息学的不同学科文化之间存在态度分歧，而且先驱者、创始人和追随者之间也存在区别；随着跨学科/学科的成熟，它们面临着跨学科和跨代际的挑战。