| 2 Research | |
| Section Intro | Threading and energy profiles | structural similarities | functional annotation | sequence |
Bioinformatics is the application of computational power to scrutinize large amount of data with high degree of reliability. These are important issues when we consider the abudancy and richness of the data outputted by all the genome projects.
Its goals include, but are not limited to, the recognition of genes and regulatory sequences and the extraction of relevant information from nucleotide sequences.
The search of any subtle functional patterns that may be hidden in the highly complex and intricate data (as obtained by gene chips, for instance) are also possible with apropriate treatment of such information, as well as predictions and correlations of several gene functions.
Moreover, a large amount of data will also result from the efforts to map intricate protein-protein interactions, suggested as the main explanation for the wide range of functionality presented by the ~30,000 human genes. Once again, bioinformatics will play the main role in the comprehensible integration of the raw data.