Dear Matt, It seems a very good idea to make a company that is specialized in bioinformatics.I will be pleased to support u in that.Without doubt, C programming and linux is useful in the field in bioinformatics.However,if u want to start,I recommend u to read Perl programming. A.Sherif Omran Chemist,Microbiologist Software Engineer and Developer microchemist at gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/biodevelopers/attachments/20060424/99456876/attachment.html