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Bioinformatics

By: Pierre Baldi Søren Brunak

In all areas of biological and medical research, the role of the computer has been dramatically enhanced in the last five to ten year period. While the first wave of computational analysis did focus on sequence analysis, where many highly important unsolved problems still remain, the current and future needs will in particular concern sophisticated integration of extremely diverse sets of data. These novel types of data originate from a variety of experimental techniques of which many are capable of data production at the levels of entire cells, organs, organisms, or even populations.