Bio-informatics is the application of the computer technology to the management of biological information. Computers are used to gather, store, analyze and integrate biological and genetic information which can then be applied to gene-based drug discovery and development. The need for Bio-informatics capabilities has been precipitated by the explosion of publicly available genomic information resulting from the human genome project. The science of Bio-informatics, which is the melding of molecular biology with computer science, is essential to the use of genomic information in understanding human disease and in the identification of new molecular target for drug discovery.
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