Table of Contents 0. Reading An Introduction to Applied Bioinformatics 0. Who should read IAB? 0. How to read IAB 0. Using Jupyter Notebooks to read IAB interactively 0. Reading list 0. Getting started with Biology 0. Getting started with Computer Science and programming 0. Philosophy of biology and popular science books 0. Need help? 0. Contributing and Code of Conduct 0. Acknowledgements 0. Biological Information 0. Central Dogma of Molecular Biology 0. Binary and decimal numerical systems 0. Encoding messages in bits 0. Protein sequences are encoded in a base 4 system 0. Quantifying information 0. The genetic code 0. Summary