• Exploring Bioinformatics: here
• Perl for Exploring DNA: here
• Understanding Bioinformatics: here

GenomeWeb (Biotech and Genotech News) http://www.genomeweb.com/
New York Times Science section: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/
Science Weekly News: http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl#n-week
BMC Genomics: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/
BMC Bioinformatics: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/

When the lab is not scheduled, it is available for your use outside of class:
http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/cropazo/scivis/spring12.html

For information on common Unix/Linux commands:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~info/Unixhelp/

If it is a file of protein sequences:
formatdb -p T filename.fa

If it is a file of nucleotide sequences:
formatdb -p F filename.fa

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

http://aiptasia.cs.vassar.edu/AiptasiaBase

http://www.cpan.org/

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page