There are several large conferences that are concerned with bioinformatics. Some of the most notable examples are Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), European Conference on Computational ...
Software tools for bioinformatics range from simple command-line tools, to more complex graphical programs and standalone web-services available from various bioinformatics companies or public institu ...
Main articles: List of biological databases and Biological databaseDatabases are essential for bioinformatics research and applications. There is a huge number of available databases covering almost e ...
Literature analysisMain articles: Text mining and Biomedical text miningThe growth in the number of published literature makes it virtually impossible to read every paper, resulting in disjointed sub- ...
Main articles: Computational systems biology, Biological network, and InteractomeNetwork analysis seeks to understand the relationships within biological networks such as metabolic or protein-protein ...
Main article: Structural bioinformaticsPrediction of protein structureMain article: Protein structure predictionProtein structure prediction is another important application of bioinformatics. The ami ...
Analysis of gene expressionThe expression of many genes can be determined by measuring mRNA levels with multiple techniques including microarrays, expressed cDNA sequence tag (EST) sequencing, serial ...
Main articles: Sequence alignment and Sequence databaseSince the Phage Φ-X174 was sequenced in 1977, the DNA sequences of thousands of organisms have been decoded and stored in databases. This sequen ...
Main articles: Sequence alignment and Sequence databaseSince the Phage Φ-X174 was sequenced in 1977, the DNA sequences of thousands of organisms have been decoded and stored in databases. This sequen ...
Bioinformatics has become an important part of many areas of biology. In experimental molecular biology, bioinformatics techniques such as image and signal processing allow extraction of useful result ...
HistoryPaulien Hogeweg coined the term "Bioinformatics" in 1970 to refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems. This definition placed bioinformatics as a field parallel to biophysic ...
Bioinformatics Listeni/?ba?.o???nf?r?m?t?ks/ is an interdisciplinary scientific field that develops methods for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing biological data. A major activity ...
