Informatics Publishing Limited

Suvakanta Barik ¹, Nilesh Rai ², Pradeep Mishra ³, Santosh K. Singh ², Vibhav Gautam ²

Affiliations
1 Chemical Engineering Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 382 355, IN
2 Centre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, IN
3 Division of Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE

Abstract

The trending of bioinformatics as an interdisciplinary branch of science in recent decades has enormous impact on biological research, as it enables in silico analysis of collected, archived and retrieved biological data^1,2. The primary focus of bioinformatics during its nascent stage of development was just handling biological data, i.e. DNA, RNA and protein sequences through use of the basic computational tools. However, with increasing popularity of in situ and microarray gene expression and highthroughput gene sequencing studies involving massive data, it has immerged to play a bigger role in biological research output and applications³.

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