What is Bioinformatics?

‘’Bioinformatics is the application of information science (mathematics, statics and computer science) to increase our understanding of biology’’.

Translation of billions of characters in DNA sequences that makes the genome into biologically meaningful information has given birth to a new field of science called ‘Bioinformatics’. The term bioinformatics has been derived by combining biology and informatics. The key of biotechnology is locked in the genomes of organisms. The informatics holds the key to unlock these data for the next generation of innovations.

In the broadest sense the biotechnology can be considered as information technology applied to management and analysis of biological data. But in view of recent rapid accumulation of available protein structure, this term is also used to embrace the manipulation and analysis of three dimensional structure of data. Thus bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary science which to use the benefits of computer technologies in understanding the biology of life. Now, as a subject bioinformatics consists of three core areas;

(1) molecular biology database,

(2) sequence comparison and sequence analysis,

(3) the emerging technology microarrays.

In brief,'' bioinformatics is the management and analysis of biological information stored in database''.

What is Gene therapy ?

What is Gene library ?

what is DNA and Chemical nature of DNA ?

What are Cosmids ?

Units of Gene and How it was discovered ?

What are types of Gene therapy ?

What is Data Base and classification of Data Base ?

DNA replication or Blotting techniques ?