Week 7 (Lecture 13) - Introduction to Bioinformatics

Question 1

Bioinformatics

Answer 1

• the branch of science concerned with information and information flow in biological systems, especially the use of computational methods in genetics and genomics
• the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline

Question 2

Bioinformatics is the unified discipline formed from the combination of

Answer 2

• biology
• computer science
• information technology

Question 3

Bioinformaticicans =
Biologists
+
Computer scientists

Answer 3

• biologists - collect molecular data

• • DNA and protein sequences
• • gene expression, etc
• computer scientists - develop tools, softwares, and algorithms to store and analyze the data
• bioinformatics - study biological questions by analyzing molecular data