Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management of biological information. Computers are used to gather, store, analyze and integrate biological and genetic information which can then be applied to gene-based drug discovery and development. Bioinformatics uses many areas of computer science, statistics, mathematics and engineering to process biological data.
Applications of Bioinformatics:
• It is used to search the genome of thousands of organisms, containing billions of nucleotides. These programs would compensate for mutations (exchanged, deleted or inserted bases) in the DNA sequence, in order to identify sequences that are related, but not identical.
• It is used for measuring biodiversity.
• The expression of many genes can be determined by this process.
• Bioinformatic techniques have been applied to explore various steps in the analysis of regulation.
• In order to trace the homology of newly identified protein.
