Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information science and technology to the field of life sciences. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases, data structures, Markov models, pattern matching , web technologies and statistics. Bioinformatics involves various disciplines in the fields of science and biology and would not be possible without modern advances in computing hardware and software. One of the main fields related to bioinformatics is computational molecular biology. In a broad sense, it consists of mathematical and computer science techniques to help solve problems in molecular biology. This field includes alignment of sequences, phylogeny and genome rearrangements. One of the great successes in the field of bioinformatics was the Human Genome Project, completed in 2003.

Some Subjects

 * Sequence alignment
 * Multiple sequence alignment
 * Phylogenetics
 * Genomics
 * Proteomics
 * Systems biology
 * Structural bioinformatics and drug discovery
 * Modelling biological systems
 * Prediction of protein structure
 * Molecular Interaction, Docking algorithms
 * Analysis of gene expression and protein expression
 * Analysis of regulation
 * Computational evolutionary biology
 * DNA Sequencing

Databases

 * GenBank e GenPept
 * RefSeq
 * UniProt/Swiss-Prot
 * EMBL
 * ENTREZ