If you're contacting people about this (and you should), try to do some reading beforehand. In particular this bit: I've always wanted to work with new biolog

If you're contacting people about this (and you should), try to do some reading beforehand. In particular this bit: I've always wanted to work with new biological technologies, for example figuring out what genes do, or how proteins fold, or anything cool like that where I can increase the world's knowledge. What about Bioinformatics interests you? More specifically: exactly what part of the world's knowledge would you like to increase and why? I think a good, detailed answer to that question (and decent coding skills) is the most useful thing for you right now. Maybe this is useful? http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-092January--IAP--2005/CourseHome/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... And here are links to courses (and therefore course notes) at Stanford: http://www-helix.stanford.edu/people/altman/bioinformatics.html#three http://www-helix.stanford.edu/people/altman/bioinformatics.h...