What computer skills needed by a biotechnology student?

As far as technical skills are concerned, there are not many. A through knowledge of MS office is required. Get familiar with plotting different types of graphs and alternative ways of representing data with MS Excel. There is a statistical data analysis software called SPSS (version 16 or higher). Learn how to use it. There are several online tutorial available. Learn how to use to the free sequence analysis tools available on the NCBI website. Examples include BLAST, Virtual PCR and Primer design. If you are interested in Bioinformatics, learn the following programming languages: # PERL # R