Overview: What is Bioinformatics? Data-Driven Discovery and Applications of Bioinformatics in Agriculture, Neuroscience, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Defense, and Healthcare. Session Topics: History of Omics Data and its significance, Overview of the entire course, Overview of the tools and resources for this program (edu.t-bio.info courses, projects and datasets, and the T-BioInfo Analytics Platform), Expectations and schedule review for the training program, important deadlines, Q&A session. Outcome: Learn about big data in Life Sciences and understand the properties of such datasets. Learn to ask questions such as: What is the big data research project about? What is the research question you are trying to ask? Can this data help in answering the question?