I talked about BioMed Central before, with their "open-source" style of publishing (which is a very good thing). If you want to familiarize with the kind of work a bioinformaticist is involved into, or just check recent papers published in the field, they also have a whole bioinformatics section. 5 Volumes published now, beginning in 2000, which are 100% open access. Be sure to check this out!