What is the prospect of bioinformatics?What are the jobs offered for students who did bioinformatics?

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for students who did their PG in bioinformatics

Answer 1

bioinformatics is mostly about the study of DNA sequences, such as "mining" the human genome sequence for genes, gene organization and how they are regulated, and to identify the diversity of DNA sequence in the human population. Bioinformatics also includes stuff like sequence alignment, genome assembly, and protein structure prediction. bioinformatics is very computer oriented and you will definitely need to learn statistics and programming. Bioinformatics is very much in demand right now because of the huge amount of sequence being generated by the genome projects. For example, just a few weeks ago they completed the entire genome of the sea urchin, which has an incredible array of genes involved in immunity, it will take a group of bioinformaticists to figure that out. The prospects are excellent for bioinformatics in academia, at the NIH, and also in the drug industry where they are needed to unearth new genes, decipher protein interactions and gene regulation, and to model drug - protein relationships. It's a great field, go for it!!

Answer 2

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.

The terms bioinformatics and computational biology are often used interchangeably. However bioinformatics more 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. Computational biology, on the other hand, refers to hypothesis-driven investigation of a specific biological problem using computers, carried out with experimental and simulated data, with the primary goal of discovery and the advancement of biological knowledge. A similar distinction is made by National Institutes of Health in their working definitions of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, where it is further emphasized that there is a tight coupling of developments and knowledge between the more hypothesis-driven research in computational biology and technique-driven research in bioinformatics. Computational biology also includes lesser known but equally important subdisciplines such as computational biochemistry and computational biophysics.

A common thread in projects in bioinformatics and computational biology is the use of mathematical tools to extract useful information from data produced by high-throughput biological techniques such as genome sequencing. 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.


Hey...the following link will explain you the prospect of bioinformatics..but for the jobs ...plz google it..I mean..since the technologies are advanced day by day, their field grows inch by inch for each day..so if I even points some careers, I simply think it won't be enough..

Well, personally, I think it is somewhat boring..so if u r not really interested, plz make heavy consideration before ur final decision..
but that's my opinion only...

good luck!!

Answer 3

Look on the web