"This article will examine why a biologist would want to learn to program. There are two main reasons: scientific, and economic. I hope that the discussion will also be of some use to programmers thinking of entering the bioinformatics field. But first, I'll take a short tour of some history, define some terms, and make some general comments about how programming fits into biology research."

Interesting article written by the guy who wrote my "Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics" O'Reilly book.

www.oreilly.com -- Why Biologists Want to Program Computers