title: Staying Grounded in Reality - an Opinion on Why Informatics Students Should Have Laboratory Experience.
authors.affiliation: Kyoto University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Systems Bioscience for Drug Discovery, Kyoto, Japan. jbbrown@pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Brown
keywords: Informatics education; Prospective validation; Translational informatics