What is the use of Bioinformatics?
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Bioinformatics is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems.
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By creating large databases of information on things such as protein interaction, dna regulation, etc, mathematical analysis of the data can yield interesting insights into biological processes.
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You are not very specific about what you want to do, do you have a sequence you want to translate? Or are you looking for different open reading frames in a sequence? Or are you looking at sequence homology.\n\nI'm a big fan of the ExPASY site, it has lots of links and so on. You can do your BLAST searches to look for sequence homologies, use the translate and reverse translate tools for looking at different open reading frames and it has all the proteomics databases on there as well.\n\nhttp://tw.expasy.org/\n\nI've also added the site for the NCBI BLAST search.\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/
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You will need to know both, since as time goes on, molecular behavior can be computer-predicted, the two fields are becoming inseparable. Prior to wetlab research, lenghty structural simulations will have been made. Bioinformatics will be more fun if you have a good knowledge of biochemistry.\n\nSupport novel transit solutions: http://www.hallisystem.bravehost.com
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Genes are the important functional units of our genome. There are somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 genes in our genome, the actual number is not yet known (one benefit to be gained from the sequence of the entire genome). While the sequence of the genome will allow biologists to identify most of the genes, many people have been unwilling to wait the 5-7 years that it will take to sequence all our DNA. They have taken a shortcut.
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the use of microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeasts, or biological substances, such as enzymes, to perform specific industrial or manufacturing processes. Applications include production of certain drugs, synthetic hormones, and bulk foodstuffs.
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Bioinformatics is a community focused on the freedom of information as it relates to bioscience.\nI hope this helps.
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look at bioinformatics that is a big step for I.T in medicine the creation of drugs with learning algorithms there is a hell of alot of stuff out there.\n\nCommunity for bioinformatics:\nhttp://bioinformatics.org/\n\nGeneral information about the subject:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics\n\nI also look up computer statistical models used to for patients treatment being computerised I don't really have an any sites that may help for this one but if u look in google u should be able to find information, also databases for patients records etc.\n\nHowever Bioinformatics would have a lot of interesting subjects so you should look into that.
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Biotechnology is a technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine.\n\nOf the many different definitions available, the one formulated by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is one of the broadest:\n\n    "Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use." (Article 2. Use of Terms)\n\nBiotechnology can also be defined with: "Biotechnology is the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products."\n\nOne section of biotechnology is the directed use of organisms for the manufacture of organic products (examples include beer, milk products, and skin). Naturally present bacteria are utilized by the mining industry in bioleaching. Biotechnology is also used to recycle, treat waste, clean up sites contaminated by industrial activities (bioremediation), and produce biological weapons.\n\nThere are also applications of biotechnology that do not use living organisms. Examples are DNA microarrays used in genetics and radioactive tracers used in medicine.\n\nModern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like insulin or antibiotics. It can also refer to transgenic animals or transgenic plants, such as Bt corn. Genetically altered mammalian cells, such as Chinese Hamster Ovarian (CHO) cells, are also widely used to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Another promising new biotechnology application is the development of plant-made pharmaceuticals.\n\nBiotechnology is also commonly associated with breakthroughs in new medical therapies and diagnostic devices.
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Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has come up with one of many definitions of biotechnology:[1]\n"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."\n\n(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology)\n\nBiotechnologists do a number of different jobs, from gene identification and criminal investigations to agricultural research.  Very interesting and rewarding.
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Scientists know the tobacco genome. When doing genetic studies, scientists can tell which genes are where, where to cut and splice and add things, and can determine if there are problems with the plant's DNA. Pretty much, tobacco is useful because we know it and it makes a great reference value.
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It is extremely useful in doing any kind of research-based analysis.  For example, let's just say you are studying a large number of mice, collected in the field.  You want to examine their health based on their environment, and you are specifically looking at environmental toxins.  You survey the farmers at each collection point, and ask what fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc. they use.  You record all of the data, and do testing on the mice to determine what their toxin levels are.  Then you also wish to see what problems may be associated in the mice with a specific toxin.  But you have some mice that are way off the charts in terms of averages for a certain element or toxin.  Does this taint the result?  Did these mice somehow contact those toxins abnormally (i.e. "experimental contamination")? Should you throw those "outliers" out of the data to keep them from skewing the statistics?  What do you do with these?  Here is where a good knowledge of probabilities and of statistics will really come in handy.  \n\nAs they say, figures don't lie, but liars can figure.  One's use of proper mathematical science can render the biological science either useful or useless.
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Genome analysis is used for analysing researching and studying genomes, gene sequencing is about knowing the genetic code of the DNA consisting of adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine , gene cloning is production of identical copies of the target gene and stem cell research is still under study for various applications as inducing immunogenicity, prevention of cancer etc... All these help in knowing more about the DNA which is the basis of life.
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Biotechnology employs the use of microorganisms like bacteria and yeasts and biological substances like enzymes in various industrial and manufacturing processes. Generally, biotechnology has applications in agriculture, food science, and medicine. These various applications include: \n\nUse in drugs, synthetic hormone, and bulk foods \n\nUse in the conversion of organic waste \n\nUse of some genetically altered bacterial forms in cleaning up oil spills.
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To gain a better understanding of microorganisms (and their biological processes) and the part that they play in the world.\n\nMost often, you hear about these terms in the study of pathogens (diseases) that affect humans and animals. However, some parasites are useful and have formed a symbiotic relationship with their host organsism.\n\nFor example, the infamous E. coli bacteria can cause illness if it gets into the wrong parts of your body, but are quite helpful if they stay put. \n\nMicrobiolgy also helps understand how the life processes work done at the cellular level. This helps us formulate drugs and treatments for different ailments, from mineral deficiencies to cancers.\n\n~X~
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Information Systems.\n\nComputer Science has more to do with programming and such.  Information systems is more about using software tools effectively.  The latter is more likely of benefit to a biologist.
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Biocomputers are the ones similar to any other computer. The only difference is that it possess chips to which attached are DNA/RNA or proteins. In some cases microfluids are used to do many standard laboratory tests. The chips that are used in other computers have electronic circuits embedded in it.