How do biologists use computers / programming and computer science skills?

Biology Loves Technology - a small booklet from CS4FN and Centre of the Cell which shows some links between biology and computing (though doesn't look at career options which is what I'm looking at now, for a new series of publications)

tl;dr - Biology and Computing - careers options and considerations for young people and advisors. Help by suggesting links between biology and computing here (click to edit it).

For work^ I'm hoping to put together a series of documents / booklets (well, we'll see how the first goes!) for careers advisors and young people about computer science and how having computing skills can be useful when merged with other disciplines. There are obvious parallels with computing and maths, but depending on your definition computing can be linked in some way with pretty much every subject - almost everyone, whatever job they have, uses a computer in some way. 

The first on my list is Biology and Computing and I want the document to include stories about how biologists use computing / computers along with examples of topic areas (eg 'bioinformatics'). I'd also quite like (if room, and if not vetoed) to create some 'fake' (illustrative) job ads to illustrate the sorts of skills people might need (that'll take some thought however). 

Because it's aimed ultimately at young people I'd also like to think about what things they're interested in too (eg possibly environmental stuff).

The magazine I publish* for schools, CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun), already has lots of articles on research relating to biology, chemistry, physics, maths, health/medicine and so on so I've been winnowing my way through our back issues and articles to pick out ones that are most relevant to the topic of biology (and plenty overlap with medicine too). Since the CS4FN project has been running for 15 years there'll be a bit of updating involved too!

We also have a dedicated site ('Teaching London Computing') for computer science teachers that has a microsite on interdisciplinary 'mix' subjects - it's basically killing two birds with one stone: teach a concept about a particular subject and sneak in a bit of computing teaching too. There's stuff in there for English, Maths, Biology, Physics, History, Philosophy, Language, Music, Interaction Design, Art, Dance/PE and Craft.

So at the moment I'm at the 'blast' stage of thinking up all the ways in which computers and biology might have a link and I'm looking at this from a wide-angle (themes) and narrower-view (individual projects) while I get a sense of what's what. 

To that end I thought I'd create a public Google Doc where others can say "you've forgotten this" and tell me about other interesting things I'd not come across. (click to edit it)

I've already got over 20 ways in which computers meet biology and obviously I can't include all of them, and I still need to convert that into what job is being done but it's a promising start.

^QMUL overall but this particular project is Institute of Coding, and CS4FN.

*My boss Prof Paul Curzon writes the majority of the magazine articles and those on the website with other colleagues. I mostly edit (I've written a few articles too) and sort out the distribution to subscribing UK schools. This means I can legitimately tell people at parties that I work in publishing ;)