Broadening the definition of a bioinformatician

I am currently an assistant professor in the biology department at a research-intensive university. When I interviewed for this job 3 years ago, it was loosely advertised as a bioinformatics position. At the time, I was studying genome evolution of eukaryotic algae—a topic that I am still actively engaged in Smith (2015). On a given day, I spend much of my research time staring at nucleotide sequences on a computer screen and theorizing about the evolution of genomes; thus, I feel comfortable calling myself a bioinformatician, or at the very least a scientist who primarily uses bioinformatics for his research. If asked, most of my colleagues, mentors, and students would also define me as a bioinformatician. But there is one small catch: I don't know how to program computer software or curate databases, and I am even quite pathetic at writing UNIX commands, which according to some precludes me from having the title of bioinformatician.