Essay on Biotechnology/Bioinformatics:

Essay on Biotechnology/Bioinformatics:


"Bioinformatics can be defined as a branch of science where one can interpret, compare and analyse biological data. It has emerged as a new discipline trying to solve complex problems in life sciences, particularly in biotechnology"

Data capture, data warehousing and data mining have become major issues for biotechnologists and biological scientists due to sudden growth in quantitative data in biology such as, complete genomes of biological species, including human genome, protein sequences, protein 3-dimensional structures, metabolic pathway databases, cell lines, biodiversity related information. Advancement in information technology, particularly Internet is being used to gather, access and disseminate the ever- increasing information in biology and biotechnology.

Bioinformatics is a very broad field and it encompasses issues like mapping, sequencing, sequence comparison, gene identification, protein modeling, network databases, visualization and ethics. It is an inter­disciplinary subject that on one hand requires biological information- infrastructure building and on the other requires computation based biological research. All this depends on the large stores of experimental and derived data.

The foundation of bioinformatics is based on the computational techniques, algorithms, artificial intelligence, database management, software engineering etc. All this leads to the development of community data resources and from this starts its applications development of the bioinformatics for analysis of the genetic data.

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