Jason wrote:
> I know perl and am getting my leg up on the biology side of
> bioinformatics. However, I don't work for a biotech company, but want
> something to work on outside of work. However, don't I need a gene
> sequence or something to start with? I am very interested in
> contributing to some sort of biotech research via bioinformatics, but
> don't know where to start.
Perhaps one good start is to help bioinformatics software projects. You
can find some of them here: http://bioinformatics.org/ (see the "Hosted
Projects" item). It's not university or company research but those tools
can really help. :-)
Just my 2 Eurocents.
Jean-Etienne