# Bioinformatics
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`BLAST_(biotechnology)` · `Bacteria` · `Bacteriology` · `Barcode_of_Life_Data_System` · `Base_calling` · `Behavior_informatics` · `Bernd_Sturmfels` · `Bio-inspired_computing` · `BioCompute_Object` · `BioJS` · `BioJava` · `BioNumbers` · `BioPerl` · `BioRuby` · `Biochemistry` · `Biochip` · `Bioclipse` · `Biocoenosis` · `Bioconductor` · `Biodiversity` · `Biodiversity_informatics` · `Biogeochemical_cycle` · `Biogeography` · `Biogeology` · `Bioimage_informatics` · `Bioinformatics_(journal)` · `Bioinformatics_Open_Source_Conference` · `Biological_computation` · `Biological_data` · `Biological_database` · [[Biological_engineering]] · `Biological_interaction` · `Biological_network` · `Biological_organisation` · [[Biological_system]] · `Biology` · `Biomass` · `Biome` · `Biomechanics` · `Biomedical_text_mining` · `Biophysics` · `Biopython` · `Biosemiotics` · `Biosphere` · `Biostatistics` · `Biotechnology` · `Botany` · `Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy` · `Bowtie_(sequence_analysis)` · `Brain–computer_interface` · `Brazilian_Society_of_Health_Informatics` · `Breast_cancer` · `Breathing` · `Broad_Institute` · `COSBI` · `CRAM_(file_format)` · `Canadian_Bioinformatics_Workshops` · `Cancer` · `Carbohydrate` · `Cell_(biology)` · `Cell_biology` · `Cell_cycle` · `Cell_nucleus` · `Cell_signaling` · `Cell_theory` · `Cellular_microbiology` · [[Cellular_model]] · `Cellular_respiration` · `ChIA-PET` · `Chemical_biology` · `Chemical_bond` · [[Chemical_element]] · `Cheminformatics` · [[Chemistry]] · `Chemogenomics` · `China_National_GeneBank` · `Chromatin` · `Chromosome_conformation_capture` · `Chronobiology` · `Circuit_(computer_science)` · `Circulatory_system` · `Climate` · `Climate_change` · `Clustal` · `Cluster_analysis` · `Cognitive_biology` · `Cognitive_genomics` · `Common_name` · `Communication` · [[Communication_protocol]] · `Community_(ecology)` · `Comparative_biology` · `Comparative_genomic_hybridization` · `Comparative_genomics` · `Computability_theory` · `Computational_biology` · `Computational_chemistry` · `Computational_complexity` · `Computational_complexity_theory` · `Computational_engineering` · `Computational_genomics` · `Computational_geometry` · `Computational_intelligence` · `Computational_linguistics` · `Computational_mathematics` · `Computational_neuroscience` · `Computational_phylogenetics` · `Computational_physics` · `Computational_problem` · `Computational_social_science` · `Computational_theory_of_mind` · `Computer_accessibility` · `Computer_animation` · [[Computer_architecture]] · `Computer_data_storage` · `Computer_graphics` · [[Computer_hardware]] · `Computer_network` · `Computer_program` · [[Computer_programming]] · [[Computer_science]] · `Computer_security` · `Computer_simulation` · `Computer_vision` · `Computing` · `Computing_platform` · `Concurrency_(computer_science)` · `Concurrent_computing` · [[Connectomics]] · `Consensus_clustering` · `Conservation_biology` · `Consumer_health_informatics` · `Continuity_of_Care_Record` · `Control_flow` · [[Control_theory]] · `Coursera` · `Creative_Commons` · `Cross-validation_(statistics)` · `Cryobiology` · `Cryptography` · `Current_Protocols` · `Cyber-physical_system` · `Cyberbiosecurity` · `Cyberwarfare` · `Cytogenetics` · `DNA` · `DNA_Data_Bank_of_Japan` · `DNA_barcoding` · `DNA_microarray` · `DNA_sequencing` · `Data_mining` · `Data_processing` · `Data_science` · `Database` · `Database_Center_for_Life_Science` · [[Decision-making]] · `Decision_support_system` · [[Decision_theory]] · `Decoding_the_Universe` · `Dendrology` · [[Dependability]] · `Developmental_biology` · `Digital_art` · [[Digital_library]] · `Digital_marketing` · `Directed_acyclic_graph` · `Discrete_mathematics` · `Distributed_artificial_intelligence` · `Distributed_computing` · `Document_management_system` · `Domain-specific_language` · `Drug_design` · `Drug_discovery` · `E-commerce` · `EMBOSS` · `EMBnet` · `ENCODE` · `Earliest_known_life_forms` · `Earth_BioGenome_Project` · `Ecological_genetics` · `Ecological_niche` · [[Ecology]] · [[Ecosystem]] · `Ecosystem_ecology` · `EdX` · `Educational_technology` · `Electronic_design_automation` · `Electronic_health_record` · `Electronic_publishing` · `Electronic_voting` · `Electrospray_ionization` · `Elvin_A._Kabat` · `Embedded_system` · `Embryology` · [[Emergence]] · `Endocrine_system` · [[Energy]] · `Enhancer_(genetics)` · `Ensembl_genome_database_project` · `Enterprise_information_system` · `Enterprise_software` · `Enzyme` · `Epidemiology` · `Epidermis_(botany)` · `Epigenetics` · `Epigenomics` · `Epitranscriptome` · `Eukaryote` · `European_Bioinformatics_Institute` · `European_Conference_on_Computational_Biology` · `European_Federation_for_Medical_Informatics` · `European_Molecular_Biology_Laboratory` · `European_Nucleotide_Archive` · [[Evolution]] · `Evolutionary_biology` · [[Evolutionary_developmental_biology]] · `Exome` · `Expressed_sequence_tag` · `Extended_reality` · `FASTA_format` · `FASTQ_format` · [[Fault_tolerance]] · `Fermentation` · `Flatiron_Institute` · `Flow_cytometry` · `Flow_cytometry_bioinformatics` · `Flower` · `FlyBase` · `Form_factor_(design)` · `Formal_language` · `Formal_methods` · `Frederick_Sanger` · `Free_and_open-source_software` · `Freshwater_biology` · `Function_(biology)` · `Functional_genomics` · `Funding_of_science` · `Fungus` · `GISAID` · `Galaxy_(computational_biology)` · `GenBank` · `Gene` · `GeneMark` · `Gene_Disease_Database` · `Gene_duplication` · `Gene_expression` · `Gene_flow` · `Gene_mapping` · `Gene_prediction` · `Gene_regulatory_network` · `Gene_transfer_format` · `General_feature_format` · [[Genetic_algorithm]] · `Genetic_drift` · `Genetics` · `GenoCAD` · `Genome` · `Genome_informatics` · `Genome_project` · [[Genomics]] · `Geobiology` · `Geographic_information_system` · `George_Washington_University` · `Gerontology` · `Glycomics` · [[Graph_theory]] · [[Graphics_processing_unit]] · `Green_computing` · `Ground_tissue` · `HMMER` · `HRHIS` · `Habitat` · `Haemophilus_influenzae` · `Hardware_acceleration` · `Hardware_security` · `Harvard_University` · `Health_Informatics_Society_of_Australia` · `Health_informatics` · `Health_information_management` · `Health_information_technology` · `Herpetology` · `Hidden_Markov_model` · `Hierarchical_clustering` · `High-content_screening` · `High-performance_Integrated_Virtual_Environment` · `Histology` · `History_of_biology` · `History_of_life` · [[Homeostasis]] · `Homology_(biology)` · `Homology_modeling` · `Horizontal_gene_transfer` · `Hormone` · `Human-centered_computing` · `Human_Connectome_Project` · `Human_Epigenome_Project` · `Human_Genome_Project` · `Human_Metabolome_Database` · `Human_Microbiome_Project` · `Human_Variome_Project` · `Human_biology` · `Human_digestive_system` · `Human_evolution` · `Human_genome` · `Human–computer_interaction` · `ISCB_Africa_ASBCB_Conference_on_Bioinformatics` · `Ichthyology` · `Image_analysis` · [[Image_compression]] · `Imaging_informatics` · `Immune_system` · `Immunohistochemistry` · `Immunology` · `Immunomics` · `In_silico` · `Index_of_biology_articles` · `Indian_Association_for_Medical_Informatics` · [[Industrial_process_control]] · `Infertility` · `Inforg` · `Informatics` · `Information_engineering` · `Information_overload` · `Information_processing_theory` · `Information_retrieval` · `Information_security` · `Information_structure` · [[Information_system]] · `Information_technology` · [[Information_theory]] · `Infosphere` · `Institute_of_Genomics_and_Integrative_Biology` · `Insulin` · `Integrated_circuit` · `Integrated_development_environment` · `Intelligence` · `Intelligent_Systems_for_Molecular_Biology` · `InterPro` · `Interaction_design` · `Interactome` · `Internal_environment` · `International_Conference_on_Bioinformatics` · `International_Conference_on_Computational_Intelligence_Methods_for_Bioinformatics_and_Biostatistics` · `International_Medical_Informatics_Association` · `International_Nucleotide_Sequence_Database_Collaboration` · `International_Society_for_Biocuration` · `International_Society_for_Computational_Biology` · `International_Society_for_Computational_Biology_Student_Council` · `Interpreter_(computing)` · `Introduction_to_evolution` · `Introduction_to_genetics` · `Intrusion_detection_system` · `J._Craig_Venter_Institute` · `Japanese_Society_for_Bioinformatics` · `Johns_Hopkins_University` · `Joint_Genome_Institute` · `Jumping_library` · `K-means_clustering` · `KEGG` · `Kepler_scientific_workflow_system` · `Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning` · `LOINC` · `Leaf` · `Learning` · `Leghemoglobin` · `Lesion` · `Library_(computing)` · `Life` · `Lior_Pachter` · `Lipid` · `Lipidology` · `Lipidomics` · `List_of_biobanks` · `List_of_bioinformatics_institutions` · `List_of_bioinformatics_journals` · `List_of_biological_databases` · `List_of_biology_journals` · `List_of_computer_size_categories` · `List_of_medical_and_health_informatics_journals` · `List_of_omics_topics_in_biology` · `List_of_open-source_bioinformatics_software` · `Logic_in_computer_science` · `MUSCLE_(alignment_software)` · [[Machine_learning]] · `Machine_learning_in_bioinformatics` · `Macroecology` · `Macroevolution` · `Mammalogy` · `Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff` · `Marine_biology` · `Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo` · `Mass_spectrometry` · `Massively_parallel_signature_sequencing` · `Master's_degree` · `Mathematical_analysis` · `Mathematical_and_theoretical_biology` · [[Mathematical_optimization]] · [[Mathematical_software]] · `Mathematics` · `Matter` · `Max_Planck_Institute_for_Molecular_Genetics` · `Max_Planck_Institute_of_Molecular_Cell_Biology_and_Genetics` · `Medical_classification` · `Medical_image_computing` · `Medical_imaging` · `Meiosis` · `Mendelian_inheritance` · `Metabolic_network` · `Metabolism` · `Metabolomics` · `Metagenomics` · `Microarray` · `Microbiology` · `Microbiome` · `Microevolution` · `Middleware` · `Mind` · `Mind_uploading` · `MitoMap` · `Mitochondria` · `Mitosis` · `Mobile_computing` · `Model_of_computation` · `Modeling_language` · `Molecular_biology` · `Molecular_evolution` · `Molecular_phylogenetics` · `Molecule` · `Monomer` · `Morphometrics` · [[Multi-agent_system]] · `Multi-task_learning` · `Multimedia_database` · `Multiomics` · `Multiple_sequence_alignment` · [[Multiprocessing]] · [[Multithreading_(computer_architecture)]] · `Muscular_system` · `Mutation` · `Mycology` · `Named-entity_recognition` · `National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information` · `National_Human_Genome_Research_Institute` · `National_Institute_of_Genetics` · `National_Institutes_of_Health` · `Natural_computing` · `Natural_language_processing` · `Natural_selection` · `NeXML_format` · `Neontology` · [[Nervous_system]] · `Netherlands_Bioinformatics_Centre` · `Network_architecture` · `Network_performance` · `Network_scheduler` · `Network_security` · `Network_service` · `Networking_hardware` · `Neural_computation` · `Neuroinformatics` · [[Neuroscience]] · `New_York_Genome_Center` · `Nexus_file` · `Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine` · `Noise` · `Nuclear_organization` · `Nucleic_acid` · `Nucleic_acid_sequence` · `Nucleotide` · `Numerical_analysis` · `Nutritional_science` · `OBO_Foundry` · `Objectivity_(science)` · `Oligonucleotide` · `Oncogenomics` · `Online_Mendelian_Inheritance_in_Man` · `OpenEHR` · `Open_Bioinformatics_Foundation` · `Open_source` · `Operating_system` · [[Operations_research]] · `Orange_(software)` · `Organ_(biology)` · `Organelle` · `Organic_compound` · `Organism` · `Ornithology` · `Osteology` · `Outline_of_biology` · `Outline_of_computer_science` · `PH` · `PHI-base` · `Pacific_Symposium_on_Biocomputing` · `Paleontology` · `Paleopolyploidy` · `Pan-genome` · `Parallel_computing` · `Parasitology` · `Pathology` · `Pattern_recognition` · `Paulien_Hogeweg` · `Peer_review` · `Perception` · `Peripheral` · `Personal_genomics` · `Personalized_medicine` · `Pfam` · `Pharmacogenomics` · `Pharmacology` · `Phi_X_174` · `Philippine_Genome_Center` · `Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence` · `Philosophy_of_information` · `Phloem` · `Photobiology` · `Photograph_manipulation` · `Photosynthesis` · `Phycology` · `Phylogenetic_Assignment_of_Named_Global_Outbreak_Lineages` · `Phylogenetic_tree` · `Phylogenetics` · `Physical_computing` · [[Physics]] · `Physiology` · `Pileup_format` · `Plant` · `Plant_stem` · `Plug-in_(computing)` · `Point_mutation` · `Polymer` · `Pomology` · `Population_(biology)` · `Population_ecology` · `Population_genetics` · `Population_genomics` · `Post-transcriptional_modification` · `Primatology` · `Printed_circuit_board` · `Prion` · [[Probability]] · `Process_(computing)` · `Processor_(computing)` · `Programming_language` · `Programming_language_theory` · `Programming_paradigm` · `Programming_team` · `Programming_tool` · `Prokaryote` · `Protein` · `Protein_Data_Bank` · `Protein_Information_Resource` · `Protein_domain` · `Protein_function_prediction` · `Protein_microarray` · `Protein_structure` · `Protein_structure_prediction` · `Protein_subcellular_localization_prediction` · `Protein_superfamily` · `Protein–protein_interaction` · `Protein–protein_interaction_prediction` · `Proteomics` · `Protist` · `Protistology` · `Provenance` · `Public_health_informatics` · `Quantum_biology` · [[Quantum_computing]] · `REST` · `RNA-Seq` · `RNA_splicing` · `Randomized_algorithm` · `Raspberry_Pi` · `Rat_Genome_Database` · [[Real-time_computing]] · `Reason` · `Reductionism` · `Regulation_of_gene_expression` · [[Reinforcement_learning]] · `Remote_control` · `Remote_manipulator` · `Rendering_(computer_graphics)` · `Reproduction` · `Reproductive_biology` · `Reproductive_system` · `Requirements_analysis` · `Research_in_Computational_Molecular_Biology` · `Resource_(biology)` · `Respiratory_system` · `Root` · `Rosalind_(education_platform)` · `SAM_(file_format)` · `SAMtools` · `SNP_annotation` · `SOAP` · `Saccharomyces_Genome_Database` · [[Science]] · `Scientific_law` · `Scientific_method` · `Scientific_theory` · `Scripps_Research` · `Security_hacker` · `Security_service_(telecommunication)` · `Self-organizing_map` · [[Self-replication]] · `Semiotics` · `Sequence_Read_Archive` · `Sequence_alignment` · `Sequence_analysis` · `Sequence_assembly` · `Sequence_database` · `Sequence_homology` · `Sequence_motif` · `Sequence_profiling_tool` · `Sequencing` · `Serial_analysis_of_gene_expression` · `Service-orientation` · `Shoot_(botany)` · `Short_Oligonucleotide_Analysis_Package` · `Shotgun_sequencing` · [[Signal]] · [[Signal_processing]] · `Signal_transduction` · `Single-nucleotide_polymorphism` · `Social_computing` · `Social_influence` · `Social_information_processing` · `Social_software` · `Sociobiology` · `Sociogenomics` · `Soft_computing` · `Software_configuration_management` · `Software_construction` · `Software_deployment` · `Software_design` · `Software_development` · `Software_development_process` · [[Software_engineering]] · `Software_framework` · `Software_maintenance` · [[Software_quality]] · `Software_repository` · `Solid_modeling` · `Spatial_biology` · `Speciation` · `Species` · `Species_richness` · `Speciesism` · `Srinivas_Aluru` · `State_(computer_science)` · `Statistics` · `Stimulus_(physiology)` · `Stochastic_computing` · `Stockholm_format` · [[Stream_processing]] · `Structural_bioinformatics` · `Structural_biology` · `Structural_genomics` · `Structural_motif` · [[Structure]] · `Sulston_score` · `Supervised_learning` · `Swiss_Institute_of_Bioinformatics` · `Synthetic_biology` · `Syphilis` · `System_on_a_chip` · `Systematics` · [[Systems_biology]] · [[Systems_theory]] · `Søren_Brunak` · `Taxonomic_database` · `Taxonomic_rank` · `Taxonomy_(biology)` · `Teratology` · `Text_mining` · `The_Arabidopsis_Information_Resource` · `Theoretical_computer_science` · `Theory_of_computation` · `Timeline_of_biology_and_organic_chemistry` · `Tissue_(biology)` · `Tissue_microarray` · `TopHat_(bioinformatics)` · `Toxicogenomics` · `Toxicology` · `Transcriptomics_technologies` · `Translational_bioinformatics` · `Translational_medicine` · `Transmembrane_domain` · `Treponema_pallidum` · `UGENE` · `Ubiquitous_computing` · `UniProt` · `University_of_California,_San_Diego` · `Unsupervised_learning` · `Variant_Call_Format` · `Vascular_plant` · `Vascular_tissue` · `VectorBase` · [[Very-large-scale_integration]] · `Video_game` · `Virology` · `Virophysics` · `Virtual_machine` · [[Virtual_reality]] · `Virtual_screening` · `Virtual_world` · `Virus` · `Visualization_(graphics)` · `Water` · [[Wayback_Machine]] · `Welfare_biology` · `Wellcome_Sanger_Institute` · `Whitehead_Institute` · `Whole_genome_sequencing` · `Wireless_sensor_network` · `Word_processor` · `Workflow_management_system` · `World_Wide_Web` · `WormBase` · `X-ray_crystallography` · `Xenobiology` · `Xylem` · `Zebrafish_Information_Network` · `Zoology`
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*Bioinformatics — placed from the Real G.E.N.E.R.A.T.I.V.E. course library (STEM and Music room). Source: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia article media). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genome_viewer_screenshot_small.png).*
> Bioinformatics (/ˌbaɪ.oʊˌɪnfərˈmætɪks/ ⓘ) is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, computer programming, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to anal ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics))
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> Summary stub · part of Process Engineering · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics)
## Summary
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods, data analysis, and [[Information|information]] technology to analyze and interpret biological data, particularly genomic sequences, protein structures, and molecular interactions. It integrates biology, [[Computer_science|computer science]], statistics, and mathematics to extract meaningful information from large biological datasets and develop computational models of biological systems. Bioinformatics enables identification of genes, prediction of protein function, drug discovery, understanding disease mechanisms, and optimization of biotechnological processes. Applications span from fundamental research to industrial biotechnology, where computational analysis drives [[Process_design|process design]] and optimization.
## Key points
- Combines computational analysis, statistics, and information technology with molecular biology
- Analyzes genetic sequences, protein structures, and molecular interaction data
- Enables drug discovery, disease understanding, and identification of therapeutic targets
- Supports optimization of biotechnological and bioprocess [[Engineering|engineering]] applications
- Growing importance in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and biomanufacturing
## Relation to Process Engineering
Bioinformatics is essential to bioprocess engineering, a specialized domain of process engineering. It enables optimization of fermentation, cell culture, and protein production processes by analyzing biological data and modeling metabolic pathways, improving yields and efficiency.
## Sources
- [Bioinformatics — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics)
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## Wikipedia : Wikitube
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