So you want to learn bioinformatics?
When I started my PhD at the University of Dundee, I spent about a year in the lab developing a ChIP-seq (chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by Next Generation Sequencing) protocol for barley. Foreseeing a bioinformatics* bottleneck, with the encouragement of my supervisor Prof. Andy Flavell, I set about learning Linux command line computing, data mining and …