Well, I'm certainly not going to apologize for suggesting you enroll in classes in a subject that you obviously love quite a bit. Bioinformatics is a really distinct field from biochemistry/molecular biology. I have B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry and have taught introductory lecture and lab classes in the field. I've also done research in academic and industrial laboratories, and I now earn my living by freelance writing in the field of biotechnology. It's hard enough to a successful cloning experiment, say, when you have all of the resources of a multi-billion dollar company at your fingertips, including a high tech sequencing core facility, every type of instrument and freezers full of all of the reagents and supplies you can use. The reality of research is such that it fails...over and over again, even when you're doing everything right, and you end up tweaking extremely fiddly details in order to finally get where you want to go. Having the tools to do the work is not the real hurdle.

I'm not trying to insult you, but I will say that you will be more successful if you have a theoretical grounding in the science. So you are an autodidact. What have you read? Maybe I can give you some recommendations.