This three hour tutorial, based on the O'Reilly book of the same name, is designed to introduce biologists to bioinformatics programming by using real biological data and practically useful exercises including:

• DNA and protein sequence data
• Motif finding
• Modeling mutation
• Genbank data extraction
• PDB data extraction
• BLAST data extraction
• Regular expressions
• Controlling other bioinformatics programs
• Finding and using modules