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BioInformatics Programme
What is Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is a new scientific discipline that combines biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics into a broad-based field
that will have profound impacts on all fields of biology. It is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research
and industrial application. The aim of bioinformatics is to collect the wealth of biological information and use it to improve the
living standards of human beings.
Applications of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is applied in various fields like human health, environment, agriculture, biotechnology, computational genomics, gene identification and annotation, molecular modeling and simulation, computational proteomics, protein structure prediction, drug design, clinical pharmacologist, sequence analysis and biomedical research and development. It is used in the field of molecular medicine to produce customized medicines for the prevention and cure of diseases.
Careers in Bioinformatics
The jobs currently available in bioinformatics involve the design and implementation of programs and systems for the storage, management and analysis of vast amounts of DNA sequence data. Such positions require in-depth programming and relational database skills, which very few biologists possess, and so it is largely the computational specialists who are filling these roles.
As the bioinformatics field matures there will be a huge demand for outreach to the biological community to sift through giga bases of genomic sequence in search of novel targets. It will be in these areas that biologists with the necessary computational skills will find their niche.