Bioinformatics is an emerging area of science because technological advances in the field of life sciences have led to the generation of increasingly accumulating large volumes of biological data. The large size of such data will create a huge amount of value but presents numerous challenges of storage, annotation, and curation at the same time. Bioinformatics has allowed the handling of such a large amount of data and has thus paved the way for the rise of "omics" technologies. This chapter focuses on the role of bioinformatics in major "omics" fields, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics and also highlights upcoming fields like nutrigenomics, chemoinformatics, molecular phylogenetics, systems and synthetic biology, which have progressed due to the beautiful amalgamation of information technology, mathematics, chemistry, and omics sciences. The diverse research areas of bioinformatics like the development of biological databases, genome analysis, 3D structure prediction, drug discovery, clinical applications as well as mathematical modeling of metabolic processes have also been discussed in this chapter.

Disha Gangotia

Role of Bioinformatics in Biological Sciences

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