What is Bioinformatics ?

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary science that encompasses use of techniques from the Life sciences world, and Computer science to solve complex biological problems. According to the dictionary, Bioinformatics is "Information technology as applied to the life sciences, especially the technology used for the collection, storage, and retrieval of genomic data". The term Bioinformatics has most recently become a buzzword with several large and small companies, and major research efforts in the field of bioinformatics include sequence alignment, gene prediction, genome assembly etc. It uses the latest advancements in the the area of Computer Science such as Data warehousing, Data mining and Mathematical sciences.