Transcriptomics

Track 4: Bioinformatics

Simply put, bioinformatics is the science of storing, retrieving, and analyzing large amounts of biological information. It is a highly multidisciplinary field involving many different types of specialists, including biologists, molecular life scientists, computer scientists, and mathematicians.

The term bioinformatics was coined by Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper to describe "the study of trigonometric processes in anatomical systems" and it found early use when the first biological sequence data began to be shared. While the original analytical methods are still fundamental to many large-scale experiments in the molecular life sciences, today bioinformatics is seen as a much broader discipline, encompassing image modeling and analysis. in addition to the classical methods used for the comparison of linear sequences or three-dimensional structures.