Bioinformatics is the name given to these mathematical and computing approaches used to glean understanding of biological processes.

Bioinformatics is very much involved in making sense of protein microarray and HT MS data ; the former approach faces similar problems as with microarrays targeted at mRNA, the latter involves the problem of matching large amounts of mass data against predicted masses from protein sequence databases, and the complicated statistical analysis of samples where multiple, but incomplete peptides from each protein are detected.

* Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field which addresses biological problems using computational techniques, and makes the rapid organization and analysis of biological data possible.

* Bioinformatics Core ( B ), located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is responsible for acquiring, storing, and disseminating all CFG-related data and information.

The laboratory is also the Bioinformatics Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Downtown Campus is the site of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Science, which partners in research with UB's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute as well as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute to compose the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus.

BioRuby is a package of Open Source Ruby code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, tools for structural biology, and other Bioinformatics.

It is widely used in the field of biotechnology to enhance the knowledge of students worldwide. It is a Life science search engine It is used in Bioinformatics

It is an active open source software project supported by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.

The mission of the foundation is to support development of open source toolkits for bioinformatics, organize and run the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, and generally assist in the development and promotion of open source software development in the life sciences.

The Bioinformatics Center conducts interdisciplinary research in bioinformatics and is in charge of a masters program in bioinformatics.

* Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology: is an autonomous institute with an affiliation to the University of Pune.

The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ( SIB, or formally " SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ") is an academic not-for-profit foundation which federates bioinformatics activities throughout Switzerland.

The web-interface to submit sequences for running a search of the European Bioinformatics Institute ( EBI )' s online databases is also available using the FASTA programs.

The Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde ( Brazilian Society of Health Informatics in Portuguese, abbreviated as SBIS is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics It has the mission of promoting the development and the interchange of ideas and results in the fields devoted to the information technologies applied to the health sciences ( Medical informatics, Telemedicine, Bioinformatics, etc.

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech is a bioinformatics, computational biology, and systems biology research facility that uses transdisciplinary approaches combining information technology, biology and medicine to interpret and apply vast amounts of biological data generated from basic research to some of today ’ s key challenges in the biomedical, environmental and agricultural sciences.

Jotun Piet Hein ( born 19 July 1956 ) is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of University College, Oxford.

The SSEARCH is included in the European Bioinformatics Institute's suite of similarity searching programs.

He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute ( EBI ) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL ).

It is maintained by Steven Salzberg, Art Delcher, and their colleagues at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Building on the recognition of the importance of information transmission, accumulation and processing in biological systems, in 1978 Paulien Hogeweg, coined the term " Bioinformatics " to refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems.

Bioinformatics now entails the creation and advancement of databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the management and analysis of biological data.

* Bioinformatics and Computational biology – The use of computer science to maintain, analyse, store biological data and to assist in solving biological problems such as Protein folding, function prediction and Phylogeny.

The Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology ( BBCB ) supports studies in and tools for understanding complex biological systems.

Bioinformatics and Computational biology are interdisciplinary fields of research, development and application of algorithms, computational and statistical methods for management and analysis of biological data, and for solving basic biological problems.

Subsequences have applications to computer science, especially in the discipline of Bioinformatics, where computers are used to compare, analyze, and store DNA strands.

Anna Quibler-a hard-scientist administrator in charge of the Bioinformatics Division at the NSF ; part of her job entails farming out grant proposals from scientists and science students nationwide to program directors under her supervision.

The other members of the Board of Directors are: Dr. Jaleh Daie, managing partner of Aurora Equity ; Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University ; Dr. Howard Frank, professor of management science, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business ; Dr. Irma Gigli, director of the Center for Immunology & Autoimmune Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Mr. Paul Longsworth, vice president of new ventures, Fluor Corporation ; Dr. John H. Moore, president emeritus of Grove City College ; Dr. Rodney Nichols, president emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences ; Dr. Gilbert S Omenn, professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health and director of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan ; Ms. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, dean of the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific ; Dr. Anne C. Petersen, a research professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan ; Dr. Victor Rabinowitch, senior vice president ( retired ), The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; Dr. Susan Raymond, Executive Vice President for Research, Evaluation and Strategic Planning, Changing Our World ; and Dr. Hassan Virji, Executive Director, Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training ( START ).

Research topics span from theoretical computer science, such as Formal languages, Formal methods, or more mathematically-oriented topics such as Information theory, optimization, Complex system ... to application-driven topics like Bioinformatics, image and video compression, Handwriting recognition, Computer graphics, Medical imaging, Content-based image retrieval ...

In the following years, research establishments like the Bioinformatics Centre, the National Centre for Cell Sciences ( NCCS ), the Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology ( IBB ), which are now independent institutions, were housed in the department and their research activities were initiated.

Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent completion of the Human Genome Project.

Bioinformatics also deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, structural biology, software engineering, data mining, image processing, modeling and simulation, discrete mathematics, control and system theory, circuit theory, and statistics.

Bioinformatics has played a role in more recent discoveries, with increasing automation of the basic comparative genomics strategy.

* Bachelor of Science in Biology with emphasis in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Quality Systems Assessment Process Industries.

Several of the subject-specific BMC journals are among the top quarter of journals in their field with regard to their impact factors, including BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Molecular Biology.

Chin, " Generalized Planted ( l, d )- Motif Problem with Negative Set ", Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics ( WABI 2005 ), ( October 2005 ) ( accepted )

Wong, " Efficient Constrained Multiple Sequence Alignment with Performance Guarantee ", Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3 ( 1 ): 1-18 ( February 2005 )-preliminary version appeared in CSB2003

Currently the only company in bioinformatics to offer both SSE and FPGA solutions accelerating Smith – Waterman, CLC bio has achieved speed-ups of more than 110 over standard software implementations with CLC Bioinformatics Cube

The College of Information Science and Technology offers undergraduate / graduate degrees in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Bioinformatics ( graduate degree offered in collaboration with UNMC's Pathology's graduate program ), Information Assurance, and Information Technology Innovation.

It shares this location with the European Bioinformatics Institute.

In 2002, PIR along with its international partners, EBI ( European Bioinformatics Institute ) and SIB ( Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ), were awarded a grant from NIH to create UniProt, a single worldwide database of protein sequence and function, by unifying the PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, and TrEMBL databases.