Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I've done a bioinformatics project for science fair last year and enjoyed it. This year i also want to do a bioinformatics project, but I don't know what to do.
I'm interested in diseases.
Any ideas for what I could research this year for my science fair project?
(I've already tried the ones on this site)

Thanks,
snowfox

Hi,

I don't work with bioinformatics at all, so it's a little hard for me to help with this. I did find a site that listed a bunch of bioinformatics projects, although many of them linked back to Science Buddies:
http://www.juliantrubin.com/topicprojec ... jects.html

Take a look and see if there's anything there that grabs your interest.

I would also suggest going to your local university's library and searching there for bioinformatics and disease--you'll probably find a lot of research papers where people have used bioinformatics in relation to diseases. You'll know what the state of the art is in the field, and maybe learn about some local researchers using those tools.

I would also suggest looking at your local university for a mentor who works in bioinformatics. Science Buddies has some great information about how to find a mentor here: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... tors.shtml .

Hope that helps!