Bioinformatics

There is a great blog at http://bioticcomputer.blogspot.com/ on bioinformatics. I think this offers excellent insight for beginners that want a jump start on the subject.

The blog takes you step by step showing you how information in biology can be represented in programming. Even better the author uses the python programming language, which happens to be one of my favorite.

Not only is the blog good for people interested in bioinformatics but for novice programmers in general. It brings an interesting view on how real life data can be represented and manipulated by computers. Almost anything in the real world can be broken down into a language the computer 'understands'. Though the data being produced is often of far greater benefit to human understanding.

I suggest any novice to intermediate python programmers check out that blog.