Bioinformatics is defined broadly as the study of the inherent structure of biological information. It is the marriage of biology and the information sciences. Examples of current bioinformatics research include the analysis of gene and protein sequences to reveal protein evolution and alternative splicing, the development of computational approaches to study and predict protein structure to further understanding of function, the analysis of mass spectrometry data to understand the connection between phosphorylation and cancer, the development of computational methods to utilize expression data to reverse engineer gene networks in order to more completely model cellular biology, and the study of population genetics and its connection to human disease.
Fileds we can work on:
- Bio-analytics
- Clinical pharmacologist
- Computational chemist
- Database design and maintenance
- Proteomics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacology
- Sequence assembly
- Sequence analysis
- Informatics developer, etc.