Overview of Bioinformatics Services
As an interdisciplinary field, bioinformatics combines computer science,
statistics and life sciences together, to develop algorithms and professional
software tools for mining and interpreting the tremendous biological data,
generated in recent booming high throughput -omics studies.
With the development of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and
metabolomics, the bioinformatics has become more and more important and
get even widely application in data mining. To study how the cellular activities
are altered in different states, the biological data is combined to form a
comprehensive picture, a aerial view of the involved biological activities. As a
powerful tool, bioinformatics can help the biologists to increase the
understanding of biological processes with computationally intensive
techniques, for pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning algorithms,
and visualization. And major research efforts in the field include DNA/
RNA/protein sequencing, sequence alignment, gene finding, genome
assembly, drug design, drug discovery, protein structure alignment and
prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions,
genome-wide association studies, and the modeling of evolution.