The Bioinformatics programme at Bradford includes training in experimental techniques that complements commonly used data acquisition methods in a broad range of investigative scenarios. This is designed to provide a basic training in the principles of bioinformatics, followed by coverage of the advanced level of knowledge and training required relevant to large-scale data mining and processing, including programming and scripting via command line and the Galaxy interface. To analyse and understand biological data on a wide scale, bioinformatics incorporates expertise from a number of fields, including biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. The Bradford Bioinformatics programme offers instruction in experimental procedures that supplement typical data collecting approaches in a variety of investigative contexts. An introduction to the fundamentals of bioinformatics will be given, followed by a discussion of the advanced level of expertise needed for large-scale data mining and processing, including programming and scripting through command line and the Galaxy interface.