Bioinformatics is the application of computational techniques to analyze and interpret biological data. It connects biology with computer science. Some key applications of bioinformatics include genomics, proteomics, structural biology, pharmacogenomics, and comparative genomics. Popular databases used in bioinformatics are NCBI, BLAST, Swiss-Model, UniProt, KEGG, and Cytoscape. Free online courses are available from Coursera and popular journals include Bioinformatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and PLoS Computational Biology.