28^th European Biotechnology Congress

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Engineering

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data. Bioinformatics has been used for in silico analyses of biological queries using mathematical and statistical techniques. "All aspects of gathering, storing, handling, analyzing, interpreting and spreading vast amounts of biological information in databases”. The information involved includes gene sequences, biological activity/function, pharmacological activity, biological structure, molecular structure, protein-protein interactions, and gene expression. Bioinformatics uses powerful computers and statistical techniques to accomplish research objectives, for example, to discover a new pharmaceutical or herbicide." Deals with the computational management and analysis of biological information: genes, genomes, proteins, cells, ecological systems, medical information, robots, artificial intelligence. Areas of current and future development of bioinformatics are Molecular biology and genetics, Phylogenetic and evolutionary sciences, different aspects of biotechnology including pharmaceutical and microbiological industries, Medicine, Agriculture, and Eco-management.