Question:
what is bioinformatics?
sanjeeb
2007-07-05 22:16:30 UTC
only the defination and related software.
Nine answers:
nyambayar
2007-07-05 22:25:04 UTC
Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.
Divya K
2007-07-05 23:11:24 UTC
Bioinformatics derives knowledge from computer analysis of biological data. These can consist of the information stored in the genetic code, but also experimental results from various sources, patient statistics, and scientific literature. Research in bioinformatics includes method development for storage, retrieval, and analysis of the data. Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing branch of biology and is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and concepts from informatics, statistics, mathematics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and linguistics. It has many practical applications in different areas of biology and medicine.



Roughly, bioinformatics describes any use of computers to handle biological information. In practice the definition used by most people is narrower; bioinformatics to them is a synonym for "computational molecular biology"- the use of computers to characterize the molecular components of living things.
masrath r
2007-07-07 06:39:20 UTC
Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution
Michael N
2007-07-05 22:32:39 UTC
The simplest tasks used in bioinformatics concern the creation and maintenance of databases of biological information. Nucleic acid sequences (and the protein sequences derived from them) comprise the majority of such databases. While the storage and or ganization of millions of nucleotides is far from trivial, designing a database and developing an interface whereby researchers can both access existing information and submit new entries is only the beginning.



The most pressing tasks in bioinformatics involve the analysis of sequence information. Computational Biology is the name given to this process, and it involves the following:





Finding the genes in the DNA sequences of various organisms





Developing methods to predict the structure and/or function of newly discovered proteins and structural RNA sequences.





Clustering protein sequences into families of related sequences and the development of protein models.





Aligning similar proteins and generating phylogenetic trees to examine evolutionary relationships.

The process of evolution has produced DNA sequences that encode proteins with very specific functions. It is possible to predict the three-dimensional structure of a protein using algorithms that have been derived from our knowledge of physics, chemistry and most importantly, from the analysis of other proteins with similar amino acid sequences. The diagram below summarizes the process by which DNA sequences are used to model protein structure. The processes involved in this transformation are detailed in the pages that follow.
2007-07-05 23:10:55 UTC
Bioinformatics more properly refers to the creation and advancement of algorithms, computational and statistical techniques, and theory to solve formal and practical problems inspired from the management and analysis of biological data.



A representative problem in bioinformatics is the assembly of high-quality genome sequences from fragmentary "shotgun" DNA sequencing. Other common problems include the study of gene regulation using data from microarrays or mass spectrometry.
2007-07-07 08:08:46 UTC
bioinformatics is a field in which information sciences has been combined with biology.it's the recording,annotation,storage,analysis and searching/retrieval of nucleic acid sequences,protein sequence and structural information.

the simplest task in bioinformatics is the creation and maintenance of databases of biological information,eg.nucleic acid sequences.

the most challenging tasks involve the analysis of the sequences.this is called computational biology.
2007-07-05 22:31:52 UTC
the science of informatics as applied to biological research. Informatics is the management and analysis of data using advanced computing techniques. Bio-informatics is particularly important as an adjunct to genomic research, because of the large amount of complex data this research generates.



for softwares, this link might help

http://bioinformatics.org/software/index.php3
rizwana s
2007-07-09 22:10:13 UTC
Bioinformatics are simple DNA sequences,and searching of new sequences.we are doing in Blasta ,Fasta , this know is sequences.
2016-10-20 04:40:35 UTC
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