Talk at Jakarta.rb (Jakarta, Indonesia's ruby user group http://bintangjatuh.com/jakarta-ruby-meetup-october-2010 ) It's a small overview of what's done in genomics & bioinformatics & how ruby helps. Fire ants on genome photos © Romain Libbrecht & Yannick Wurm. All slides remain © Yannick Wurm. Get in touch if you want to use something.