0. Preface1. What is Biomedical Data and what do we do with it?2. The Data of Biomedical Informatics3. Confidential Biomedical Data4. Standards for Biomedical Data5. Just Enough Programming6. Programming Common Biomedical Informatics Tasks7. Biomedical Nomenclatures8. Misbehaving Text: Dealing with Poorly Written Medical Text9. Autocoding Unstructured Data10. Computational Methods for De-identification and Data Scrubbing11. Cryptography in Biomedical Informatics12. Describing Data with Metadata13. Simplifying Complex Data with Classifications and Ontologies14. Clinical Trials: The Informatician Lives in a Statistical World15. Distributed Computing16. A Practical Approach to ethics for Biomedical Informaticians17. Grantsmanship for Biomedical InformaticiansReferencesAppendixGlossary