I’ve always been very interested in learning more about the field of bioinformatics. So, when I got the chance to take a “crash course” on bioinformatics, I grabbed it.

Although I tried to read a couple books here and there, I never really got past the first chapter for one reason or another. Either the book was focused on a specific piece of software or it was too code intensive with pages of programming language lined up (yawn!).

But this Monday, I felt the click! Yeah, I’m that type of student. I accumulate information and then suddenly I click! It all comes into focus and connects together.

So, in one 5 hour session I learned that by simply looking up a random gene or even a sequence (either DNA or Protein) I could find out interesting information regarding various aspects of my object of study. Namely, topology, inter cellular location, possible domain functions, just to name a few!

I know this is just the tip of the iceberg but it’s just opened my eyes to a field that I was curious about but now am VERY interested in.

I’ll be writing about this in more detail and in newbie baby step style to maybe show others the every-so-cool field of bioinformatics!