Re:Bioinformatics as a student (Score 1)

Another bit of software you might have a look at is the NCBI datamodel and toolkit - see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB

see http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/tkcourse for a tutorial

The toolkit is what much of the NCBI site is built on, including stuff like Genbank, BLAST and Cn3D.