How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics?
rglullis: That's exactly what happened to me, but I have to say that it was more of an accident than a planned move.I was looking for a job where they'd hire people with Python skills and that could provide sponsorship for a H1B. The intersection of these requirements proved to be quite small, but I was fortunate to find a research lab affiliated to Harvard Medical that did just that.My first project has less to do with bioinformatics and more with secure manipulation of patients' EMR. It's funded by the CDC and all of the code is GPL.I think the other project I'm getting involved is more according to what you are looking for: Galaxy (http://galaxy.psu.edu/) is a really cool system where you can process and share huge amounts of data. It's also an open source project(http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Home), and Penn State is hiring.