Most of bioinformatics is pattern matching text files and performing statistics. You don’t need to know anything about biology beyond a rough hs level to contri

Most of bioinformatics is pattern matching text files and performing statistics. You don’t need to know anything about biology beyond a rough hs level to contribute to the tooling, even just polishing existing workflows. Most tools are not written by computer scientists so there is a lot of optimization to be done in most pipelines. Some initial reading would be to start with the blast algorithim and the sam file specification.