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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an emerging field of science that deals with the application of computers to the collection, organization, analysis, manipulation, presentation, and sharing of biological data.

  • Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field directly involving molecular biology, genetics, computer science, mathematics, and statistics.
  • The central component of bioinformatics is the study of the best ways to design and operate biologic databases.
  • As a large amount of nucleotide and protein sequence data are obtained via various research techniques, along with other types of information stored in primary and secondary biological databases, scientists started to use computers to obtain and analyze biological data in their daily research with bioinformatics tools.
  • To help the biologists access the databases effectively and use the analysis tools efficiently, bioinformatics has eventually become a vital part of biological education.
  • Bioinformatics is an evolving discipline, and complex software programs are now being used for retrieving, sorting out, analyzing, predicting, and storing DNA and protein sequence data.
  • One of the fundamental activities in bioinformatics is the sequence analysis of DNA and proteins using various programs and databases available on the world wide web.
  • Large commercial enterprises such as pharmaceutical companies employ bioinformaticians to perform and maintain the large scale and complex bioinformatics needs of these industries.
  • Apart from the analysis of genome sequence data, bioinformatics is now being used for a vast array of other vital tasks, including analysis of gene variation and expression, analysis, and prediction of gene and protein structure and function.
  • Besides, bioinformatics has found its importance in tasks like prediction and detection of gene regulation networks and presentation and analysis of molecular pathways in order to understand gene-disease interactions.
  • Bioinformatics even has clinical applications as the whole genome sequencing of an organism allows for the production of a complete list of human gene products that may provide new drugs and gene therapy for single-gene diseases may become routine.
  • Bioinformatics can be used for different other fields of the biology of different groups of living beings.

Databases and Biological Data Mining in Bioinformatics

August 2, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Databases and Biological Data Mining in Bioinformatics

What are Primary Databases? Primary databases are the databases that are generated from the primary sources with experimentally derived data such as nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, or macromolecular structures. The … Read more

Molecular Biology Web Search and Data Retrieval Tools

August 2, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Molecular Biology Web Search and Data Retrieval Tools

Information Retrieval refers to the state-of-the-art approaches, processes, methods, and procedures of searching, locating, and retrieving recorded data and information from a file or database stored on a computer. Modern … Read more

Genome and Organism Specific List of 111 Databases

August 2, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Genome and Organism Specific Databases

Genome databases are the locations where the updated information related to organisms and species is uploaded and stored, and sharing of the information is done. It is also the platform … Read more

Local and Global Alignment and Multiple Sequence Alignment

August 1, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Local and Global Alignment and Multiple Sequence Alignment

What is Local Alignment? Local Alignment is a type of pairwise alignment where two sequences are not assumed to be similar over the entire length, and it finds the regions … Read more

Phylogenetic Tree- Definition, Analysis, Elements, Methods, Uses

July 28, 2022July 26, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Phylogenetic Tree

What is Phylogenetic Analysis? The study of the evolutionary development of a species or a group of an organism or a particular characteristic of an organism or to analyze the … Read more

BLAST- Definition, 4 Types, Scores, E-Value, Uses,

July 18, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)

The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is an algorithm and program that finds the region of local similarity between the sequences by the comparison of the primary biological sequence … Read more

FASTA- Definition, Programs, Working, Algorithms, Uses

July 18, 2022July 16, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
FASTA

FASTA is a pairwise sequence alignment tool that compares the nucleotides or protein sequences with the existing database and is a text-based format that can be read and written with … Read more

Phylogenetic Tree (Dendrogram) with R Programming

July 7, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Phylogenetic Tree with R Programming

For the analysis and construction of the phylogenetic tree, R Programming is widely used. In phylogenetics, most of the R packages focus on specific statistical analysis rather than viewing and … Read more

Bioinformatics and Python Programming Language

July 16, 2022July 7, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Bioinformatics and Python Programming Language

Bioinformatics is the use of computational tools to generate, collect, analyze, visualize and store information associated with biomolecules. Biopython is the set of tools that is available freely written in … Read more

Bioinformatics and R Programming (Analyzing DNA Sequences)

July 2, 2022 by Mohan Gupta
Bioinformatics and R-programming (Analyzing DNA Sequences)

Bioinformatics is the use of computational tools to organize, analyze, understand, visualize, and store data or information associated with biomolecules. The large and complicated data or information are really difficult … Read more

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