Bioinformatics has been defined as the science of examining the structure and function of genes and proteins through the use of computational analysis, statistics, and pattern recognition. A number of recent workforce studies have shown that there is a high current and unmet demand for people trained to various levels of expertise in bioinformatics, from technicians and technical librarians to developers of new and improved methodologies and applications. Bioinformatics is a rapidly evolving and developing field both in terms of breadth of scope of useful applications and in terms of depth of what can be accomplished.