What is Bioinformatics?

What is Bioinformatics?

Bioinformatics is the application of informatics techniques to obtain, store, and interpret large quantities of biological data. The term “Bioinformatics” was initially coined by Ben Hesper and Paulien Hogewen in 1970 and defined as “the study of informatics processes in biotic systems”. Bioinformatics finds application in different fields of biology, a few of which are enlisted below.

1. Genomic Sequencing

2. Cancer Research

3. Personalized Medication

4. Evolutionary Biology

5. Protein structure

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/science/bioinformatics
• https://learn.org/articles/What_is_Bioinformatics.html
• http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/mbb452a/intro/
• https://www.biostarhandbook.com/public/what-is-bioinformatics.html
• http://bioinformaticsinstitute.ru/sites/default/files/lapidus_1_0.pdf
• www.biotecharticles.com/.../Applications-of-Bioinformatics-3270.html
• https://towardsdatascience.com/what-is-bioinformatics-703170763999
• http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jawagne/Bioinformatics.html
• https://www.nature.com/subjects/next-generation-sequencing
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424139/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24170077

Bioinformatics has become an important part of many areas of biology. In experimental biologists of molecular biology. At a more integrative level, it helps analyze and catalogue the biological pay, bioinformatics techniques such as image and signal processing allow extraction of useful results from large amounts of raw data. In the field of genetics, it aids in sequencing and annotating genomes and their observed mutations. It plays a role in the text mining of biological literature and the development of biological and gene ontologies to organize and query biological data. It also plays a role in the analysis of gene and protein expression and regulation. Bioinformatics tools aid in comparing, analyzing and interpreting of genetic and genomic data and more generally in the understanding of evolutionary as pathways and networks that are an important part of systems biology. In structural biology, it aids in the simulation and modeling of DNA, RNA, proteins as well as biomolecular interactions.

 

Scope in Bioinformatics 

Current biological and medical labs use methods that produce extremely large data sets, which cannot be analyzed by hand - for instance sequencing human genomes. Thus modern biological and medical research and development cannot be done without bioinformatics.

 Future applications in biology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, medicine, and agriculture.

In addition, bioinformatics plays an important role in biomedical research. Research work in the area of genetic diseases and medical genomics is rapidly increasing and the future of personalized medicine depends on bioinformatics approaches.

 

 Carrier opportunity 

·         Professor

·         Science Technician

·         Research Assistant

·         Bioinformatics Scientist

·         Bioinformatics Analyst

·         Junior Research Fellow.

·         Research Associate

·         Bioinformatics Software Developer

 After 12th opportunities in Bioinformatics

·        Candidates who have passed 10+2 in science discipline can pursue bioinformatics in bachelor's degree level.

·         Few of the Indian colleges offers B.Tech in Bioinformatics.

·         Candidates who have passed bachelor's degree in bioinformatics are eligible to pursue bioinformatics in master and doctoral level at Indian and foreign universities.

Entrance exams after completed MSc Bioinformatics, Genetics, Biotechnology

1. CSIR NET- https://csirnet.nta.nic.in/webinfo/public/home.aspx

2. DBT JRF Biotechnology- http://www.dbtindia.gov.in/latest-announcement/dbt-junior-research-fellowship-dbt-jrf-biotechnology-2020

3. GATE- http://gate.iitd.ac.in/

4. ICMR JRF- https://www.icmr.gov.in/

5. CUCET Entrance exam- https://www.cucetexam.in/

6. ICAR Exam- https://www.nta.ac.in/Icarexam

Online courses-

1. Coursera- Coursera is a world-wide online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford University's computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations, degrees, professional and master track courses.

URL- https://www.coursera.org/

2. NPTEL-  National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning is an online learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects. It is jointly developed by Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science.

URL- https://nptel.ac.in/

3. Udemy- Udemy, founded in May 2010, is an online learning platform aimed at professional adults and students. As of Jan 2020, the platform has more than 50 million students and 57,000 instructors teaching courses in over 65 languages. There have been over 295 million course enrollments.

URL- https://www.udemy.com/

4. Alison- ALISON is a free online education platform that mostly focuses on workplace-based skills. It was founded in Galway, Ireland by Irish social entrepreneur Mike Feerick on 21 April 2007. It has 14 million registered learners, 2 million graduates and 1,500 courses available for free access in March 2020.

URL- https://alison.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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