[joe_the_user]

I think Bioinformatics is a challenging field because, as the residence alludes to, it is aiming to marry different fields that don't necessarily talk to each other. Lior Pachter has blogged about this [1]. Pachter's book, Algebraic Statistics For Computational Biology is fairly accessible.

[1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...