How does bioinformatics help biologists?
Biology in the 21st century is being transformed from a purely lab-based science to an information science as well. Major advances in the field of molecular biology over the past few years including the ever growing genomic data have led to a large amount biological information which is difficult to decipher by the scientific community. Bioinformatics is all about retrieving, organizing, analyzing and storing data which will require the help of computational methods. It delivers easy access of information and projects a method for extracting only that information that is specifically asked by the biologists. Therefore, the field of bioinformatics has evolved such that the most pressing task involves the analysis and interpretation of various types of data, including nucleotide and amino acid sequences, protein domains, and protein structures. This ultimately helps the biologist to obtain a comprehensive picture of the cellular activities and thus base their research on how these are al
