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by sn9 3610 days ago
It can definitely be self-taught!

A promising path would be to self-teach as much as possible and then apply for an MS program in bioinformatics or something similar.

Apart from the usual advice for teaching yourself programming, you can practice bioinformatic-specific skills at the wonderful Rosalind Project [0].

[0] http://rosalind.info/about/