Are you a Computational Biologist or Bioinformaticist or Bioinformatician?

A recent discussion was provoked by @attilacsordas on twitter January 8 regarding what is the choice term for referring to those researchers working on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology fields.

Are bioinformaticians and bioinformatists alike? :)
— attilacsordas (@attilacsordas) January 8, 2014

This debate is older than people may think and it looks like an insignificant topic, but when you are writing your CV or your internet profile, or you’re looking for a new job, you will need a professional title, and that is really important. If you also look the volume of discussion and opinions about this topic on internet you will realize that the community have different points of view. I've use some of my spare time to read in detail different opinions about it, and also collect some those opinions and articles. Let’s see what common terms are used nowadays for these researchers:

Bioinformaticist, Bioinformatician, Computational Biologist, Digital biologist, bioinformatics analyst

Which are the best programming languages for a bioinformatician?

This is a basic question when you (as a programmer or biologist or mass spectrometrist) start a career in bioinformatics. What is your favorite programming language in bioinformatics?. This pool will give you a short picture about which languages are mandatory in computational proteomics & bioinformatics. Which languages would you recommend to a student wishing to enter the world of bioinformatics?. We can use this post to comment the strengths and weaknesses of each languages. 

customer survey

Some Polls and Discussion about this topic can be found in:

• Bioinformatics.org poll
• Bioinformatics Career survey 2008 by Michael Barton
• BioStart 
• Linkedin

What is your tool for peptide/protein identification?

In 2012 We published a Poll about most used softwares from peptide/protein identification in proteomics in Computational Proteomics Linkedin Group. I decided to reproduce the Poll here because linkedin remove this option and also here i have the opportunity to add more softwares to the list.