Resources

Sequence Data:

• University of California, Santa Cruz, Genome Bioinformatics downloads
• National Center for Biotechnology Information, FTP site
• The Ensembl FTP Server

Books:

• The Origins of Genome Architecture, genomes over time, very cool.
• The Implicit Genome, my favorite book of 2010 (its actually from 2006, I just found it last year. For some reason, when I went to Amazon to get link, the paperback and kindle editions seem to only cost $2 now on Amazon, but hard cover is $140)
• The Evolution of the Genome