What is bioinformatics?

Bioinformatics is the analysis of biologial data using computational methods. It includes the study of genes and genomes, RNA, proteins and metabolites.

Getting started

• Look at our guides on the left for a general introduction to several key topics in bioinformatics.

• Underneath the guides, there are groups of tutorials for common tasks in bioinformatics.

• To analyse data, we recommend getting started with Galaxy - a free, web-based bioinformatics platform.

Resources

• Melbourne Bioinformatics tutorials: see the left hand panel for tutorials covering computing, genomics, RNA-seq, and proteomics.

• Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society: www.abacbs.org

• Student group of ABACBS - COMBINE: www.combine.org.au

• BioInfo Summer: www.bis.amsi.org.au

• Software Carpentry: www.software-carpentry.org

• Bioinformatics problem solving challenges: www.rosalind.info

• A selelection of key journal papers published recently in BMC Bioinformatics.