An assessment of the current state of Bioinformatics education

Editorial Message: Several years ago, George Mason University instituted the first Ph.D. program in bioinformatics in the world. This step was followed by many other organizations, and students flooded into these programs. By the end of the nineties, bioinformatics was one of the hottest fields in all of science, and college Deans were extremely proud of their new programs, for they were evidence that the college was modern and progressive.