Proteomics, Genomics & Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary science that develops methods and software tools for analysing biological data, particularly big and complicated data sets. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary discipline of research that analyses and interprets biological data by combining biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics, and statistics. Bioinformatics has been utilised for mathematical and statistical in silico assessments of biological questions.

Bioinformatics include biological research that employ computer programming as part of their approach, as well as a set of commonly used analysis "pipelines," particularly in the field of genomics. Bioinformatics is commonly used to identify candidate genes and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Such identification is frequently done in order to better understand the genetic basis of disease, unique adaptations, attractive features (especially in agricultural species), or population variances. Bioinformatics also aims to comprehend the organisational principles within nucleic acid and protein sequences, known as proteomics, in a less formal fashion.