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 alignmen...
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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......
