You are about to become a digital explorer of life . Instead of a machete and binoculars, your tools are the command line, a scripting language (Python or R), and a healthy tolerance for error messages.
man bioinformatics (Just kidding. But man – short for manual – is the first skill you truly need.)
Now go forth, befriend your terminal, and may your p-values be small and your scripts idempotent.
