BIOINFORMATICS

This is one of the fascinating and growing fields at present.Actually bio informatics is the application of information technology and computer science to the field of molecular biology.It is the science of using computer technology to gather, store, analyse and merge biological data.And it also deals with the gathering of data from genomic analysis into accessible and usable forms.SO in brief we can say that bioinformatics is the science of developing computer software and algorithms to record and analyze biology related data, eg gene, protein, metabolic pathways and active drug ingredients data.Bioinformatics now entails the creation and advancement of databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the management and analysis of biological data.Common activities in bioinformatics include mapping and analyzing dna and protein sequences, aligning different DNA and protein sequences to compare them and creating and viewing 3-D models of protein structures.The main goal of bioinformatics is to increase the understanding of biological processes.Bioinformatics was applied in the creation and maintenance of a database to store biological information at the beginning of the "genomic revolution", such as nucleotide and amino acid sequences.