Hello all,

I work at a mammalian genetics lab full-time and in the past couple of years have been seriously looking at pursuing a Bioinformatics Masters degree. My background is in Molec/cell biology, and I have slowly been gaining competency in programming with R and python. I truly feel that bioinformatics is going to be a larger and larger section of genetics the farther in time we go, and I want to be a part of that.

As of now, here is what I have worked through in terms of programming education:

R:

• - R for Data Science
• - Limited manipulation and graphic analysis of genomic data

Python:

• Python Crash Course
• Python for Biologists

I have Advanced Python for Biologists currently on the way to my house, and that is my next step on the path. After that I want to try and learn more about algorithms in general. I tried to read Bioinformatics Algorithms by Compeau and Pevzner, but the algorithmic aspect of the text threw me for many loops so I suspended that.

Does anyone have material they know of that is a good shallow jump into algorithms with a Bioinformatic flavor?