Perusing the recent Science classified ads is highly edifying to those who have long been arguing for the importance of quantitative methods in the biological sciences. In the workshops I organized on quantitative training for life scientists over the past decade, young academic biologists commonly lamented the unwillingness of the "old guard" in their departments to appreciate the importance of mathematics in biology. The great increase in computational biology and bioinformancs positions clearly indicates a phase shift in the attention paid to quantitative approaches in the modern life sciences. The growth across the spectrum of biology in the application of mathematical and computational approaches provides explicit evidence that educators worldwide need to take account of new market forces if they wish to train their students to be adequately prepared for the demands of modern research.
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