Getting Started in Bioinformatics

What is Bioinformatics?

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards/bioinfo_intro.html

How to become a bioinformatics expert (1997)

Alexander Sczyrba

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~cfrosch/bc4s/study.html

A Short Introduction to Biocomputing

Christian Frosch

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~cfrosch/bc4s/example.html

Biocomputing in a Nutshell

Ulf Reimer and Georg Fuellen, VSNS BioComputing Division

http://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/ForAll/Basics/welcome.html

Learning Biocomputing on the Internet

David T. Croke, VSNS BioComputing Division

http://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/ForAll/Course/wwwtools.html

Pedestrian guide to analysing sequence databases

An extensive book chapter that goes beyond the basics, but does not quite consititute a course in and of itself.

Burkhard Rost and Reinhard Schneider (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~rost/Papers/Springer96.html

Why Biologists Should Not Treat Software as a Black Box

Joelle Thonnard, VSNS BioComputing Division

http://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/ForAll/Introd/eduneed.html