This may be a uniquely UK centric blog post but I suspect not. Let me start with a brief story. Sat with a coffee in our canteen a few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between a few PIs about a grant application. “Don’t worry”, the lead PI said, “we’ve put money on the application to fund a bioinformatician”. Good planning I hear you say, and I agree; however, note that none of the PIs