Preparation

Practice problems

Rosalind: programming problems in bioinformatics, graded automatically. Good practice for the capture-the-flag round.
picoCTF: a free, beginner-friendly capture-the-flag platform for getting used to the format.
OverTheWire: Bandit: a game that teaches the Unix command line step by step.
Past questions of the Liga Portuguesa de Bioinformática, on lpb.pt.

EMBL-EBI Training: free online courses on databases, tools and data analysis.
ELIXIR TeSS: a registry of bioinformatics training events and materials across Europe.
The Carpentries: open lessons on the shell, version control, Python and R.

Barabási, A.-L. (2016). Network Science. Cambridge University Press. Free online at http://networksciencebook.com/.
Fellows Yates, J. A., et al. (2024). Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics (2024.2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13784555.

Compeau, P., & Pevzner, P. A. (2018). Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (3rd ed.). Active Learning Publishers.
Jones, N. C., & Pevzner, P. A. (2004). An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms. MIT Press.
Lesk, A. M. (2008). Introduction to Bioinformatics (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Mount, D. W. (2004). Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis (2nd ed.). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Rocha, M., & Ferreira, P. G. (2018). Bioinformatics Algorithms: Design and Implementation in Python. Academic Press.

Alberts, B., et al. (2022). Molecular Biology of the Cell (7th ed.). W. W. Norton.
Griffiths, A. J. F., et al. Introduction to Genetic Analysis. W. H. Freeman.
Nelson, D. L., & Cox, M. M. Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. W. H. Freeman.

Cormen, T. H., Leiserson, C. E., Rivest, R. L., & Stein, C. (2009). Introduction to Algorithms (3rd ed.). MIT Press.
Sipser, M. Introduction to the Theory of Computation. Cengage.
Aho, A. V., & Ullman, J. D. (1994). Foundations of Computer Science. W. H. Freeman.