bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the study that alternately mocks human curiosity and computational ruthlessness while staring at gene sequences. Drowning in so-called meaningful graphs and oceans of data, yet leaving truth to the mercy of a handful of significant p-values. It feeds researchers locked in nightly battles against pipeline errors with two main nutrients: coffee and bug reports. Claimed to unravel the mysteries of life, it all too often leads honest souls straight to the hell of unreproducible results.