“Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a bioinformatician!” Do you ever feel like Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, where your job and expertise is to do x, but to achieve your goals you also have to do y and z, which you either don’t want to do or don’t have the skills to do? Genetic researchers are faced with this every day as they are expected to design experiments, develop methods, write software that will perform these methods, teach students, write grants, work towards tenure, make life-changing discoveries, follow statistical best practices, and, in their spare time, publish regularly. What are the causes and symptoms of this reality? And what is the eff ect these demands have on productivity? This whitepaper is wide ranging, so I’ll fi rst summarize it at a high level and then drill down i

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