Microbial & Biochemical Technologies

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics has become a vital a part of several areas of biology. In experimental molecular biology, bioinformatics techniques like image and signal processing allows to get helpful results from massive amounts of raw data. Within the field of genetics and genomics, it aids in sequencing and annotating genomes and their determined mutations. It plays a role within the text mining of biological literature and also the development of biological and gene ontologies to prepare and question biological information. It also plays a role within the analysis of gene and protein expression and regulation. Bioinformatics tools aid within the comparison of genetic and genomic information and additional generally within the understanding of evolutionary aspects of molecular biology. At an additional integrative level, it helps analyze and catalogue the biological pathways and networks that are a vital part of systems biology. In structural biology, it helps in the simulation and modeling of dna, RNA, proteins as well as bio-molecular interactions.