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Bioinformatics Analyst Interview Questions
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Describe Solexa (now Illumina) technology and explain its strong/weak points.
All sorts of questions about Binary search trees, Dynamic programming, Machine Learning and Probabilistic Modelling approaches ( explain MCMC, EM, etc.)
Why do you want to intern at Illumina? What in your past experience will help you succeed at Illumina?
Speak about my experience in the field
Given a 2D array in memory, why is it better to use row-major iteration instead of column-major iteration?
Describe an application you developed that you are proud of. What about it are you proud of? What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?
What is the different between statistics and machine learning? which one do you prefer? what is the difference between neural network and deep learning and which do you prefer? writw joint probability of a given network (the network was on the board)
Tell us about your current research projects?
Explain the difference between long and short reads? what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
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