The back of "The cat in the hat" describes it as "..delivering a karate chop to the weary world.." That's how I felt reading this article. https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology

I love biology, and have done some of these in the past (I keep meaning to go back to them: http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/#) I did a bit of this course too: https://www.coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis?specialization=bioinformatics

From a pedagogical perspective the problem described here seems to be duplicated in every technical field. 😞

Indeed, I recall some of the computational biology problems were solvable using search algorithms that Google had worked on. I suspect the amount of work that isn't duplicated makes up for that which is 😉