[boblol123]

A computer scientist can effectively analyse large volumes of biological data, I'm not convinced a biologist could do the same because there is just so much computer science related to visualisation, graphics programming and data modelling and their prerequisites.

A person who did 1/2 and 1/2 would likely not have enough knowledge or experience to do either the biology or cs side particularly well.

Not to mention, there are very few people I know who are good at both biology and cs.

[gnaritas]

I know of one good example, Alan Kay, the inventor of Smalltalk.

[boblol123]

I briefly looked it up, molecular biology would be a good fit though its pretty-much chemistry. It entirely depends on which areas are studied in biology.

[gnaritas]

Sure, but what's more interesting is that he credits what he knows about biology as the inspiration for Smalltalk and its particular flavor of OO.