Can't Get Enough Of That Bioinformatics

I'm not allowed to be serious for too many paragraphs in a row, but in researching the opportunities for IT people exploring bioinformatics, I amassed quite a collection of useful links, book recommendations, and other resources. If you're interested in learning more--really--you might want to start with these.

Here's a few more resources, in case you want to learn more about becoming a bioinformaticist (or simply want to impress your friends):

Browse the human genome at the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Biotechnology Industry Organization

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Celera Genomics Group

Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology career center

International Society of Computational Biology

National Human Genome Research Institute

If you like kicking back with a good algorithm, these are for you:

Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach (Pavel A. Pevzner, MIT Press, 2000).

Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models Of Proteins And Nucleic Acids (Richard Durbin et al, Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Algorithms On Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science And Computational Biology (Dan Gusfield, Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Introduction To Computational Molecular Biology (Joao Carlos Setubal, Joao Meidanis, Jooao Carlos Setubal, Pws Publishing Co., 1997)

Bioinformatics projects and tools to take a look at:

BioPerl

BioJava

Biopython

EMBOSS