what is meant by bioinformatics?

Answer 1

Exactly what is meant by bioinformatics depends on whom you talk to. To most people, bioinformatics is the applications of computer technologies to the biological sciences, particularly genomics, with the object of discovering knowledge.

This is often understood to include high-through output screening of genes and proteins.

Historically, the term bioinformatics has related to the biological entities involved in drug discovery process, covering genomics and proteomics. Some time ago, it started to get used in a wider context describing everything in the discovery value chain.

From the biologist's point of view, bioinformatics is a set of tools that allows the scientists to see cause-and-effect relationships between disease and polymorphisms, or difference in the DNA sequence among individuals.

Bioinformatics is how the researcher transforms gene data to protein structure and correlates gene and protein functions. Bioinformatics helps the researcher to "mine the data" in the gene sequences that have been discovered.

Answer 2

Bioinformatics is, I believe, a special kind of engineering discipline---it certainly isn't a "pure" science. It has been enormously successful in its short existence and I think its successes have been the result of a practical and rigorous approach which I hope to encourage in anyone interested in entering the field
Most biologists talk about "doing bioinformatics" when they use computers to store, compare, retrieve, analyze or predict the composition or the structure of biomolecules. As computers become more powerful you could probably add simulate to this list of bioinformatics verbs. "Biomolecules" include your genetic material---nucleic acids---and the products of your genes: proteins. These are the concerns of "classical" bioinformatics, dealing primarily with sequence analysis.

Khairuddin Itam drew my attention to this crisp definition of bioinformatics dating back to 1987, from P. Hogeweg:"[Bioinformatics is] the study of informatic processes in biotic systems

Answer 3

Bioinformatics properly refers to the creation and advancement of algorithms, computational and statistical techniques, and theory to solve formal and practical problems posed by or inspired from the management and analysis of biological data.

Answer 4

using computer analysis and databases to find DNA sequences and comparing it to your or other DNA sequences and also finding out amino acid sequences and compare it to your or other amino acid sequences and finding out if there's a mutation and what types of mutation and on what level (DNA or Amino Acid ).

Bioinformatics is used to trace back where orgnaisms might originate from and finding out how closely related organisms are to each other and also it can be use to learn about genetic diseases as well and proteins

Answer 5

It can be referred as the collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers especially as applied in molecular genetics and genomics

Answer 6

systematic development and application of computing systems and computational solution of techniques, analysing data obtained by experiments, modelling, data base searching and instrumentation to make novel observations about biological processes

Answer 7

it is Biology combined with Information Technology