A relative new need of looking towards the field of biology and a term coined by the great Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper in 1978 gave the world first looks of the subject.
The course can simply be explained as an application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology , specially in the field of sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, drug design, drug discovery, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein–protein interactions, genome-wide association studies and the modeling of evolution.
In present time with rapid development of computer science, bioinformatics has 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.To be more specific in the never ending field of genome and protein sequencing.
Common activities in bioinformatics also include mapping and analyzing DNA and protein sequences, aligning different DNA and protein sequences to compare them and creating 3-D models of protein structures.
Important sub-disciplines within bioinformatics and computational biology also includes the development and implementation of tools that enable efficient access and use of various types of information and the development of new algorithms (mathematical formulas) and statistics with which its helpful to access the relationships among members of large data sets, such as methods to locate a gene within a sequence, predict protein structure and or function, and cluster protein sequences into families of related sequences.
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