Monday 2 December 2013

What is bioinformatics ?

Earlier, bioinformatics is defined as an interdisciplinary filed involving biology, computer science , mathematics and statistics to analyse biological sequence data , genome content and arrangement , and to predict the function and structure of macromolecules.
With the advent of genomic era ,bioinformatics now plays added roles in biological and medical research and accounts for an increasing number of publications each year.

Bioinfo is now involved in many fields by organizing biological data relevant to genomes with a view to applying this information in agriculture , pharmacology, and other commercial applications.



 


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