Question

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, medical, life sciences, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret biological data.

In your opinion, explain how bioinformatics influences medical informatics based on the biomolecular sequences, expression profiles and automated microscopic images analysis.

Long answer in essay form for 25 marks

Answer 1

Influences of bioinformatics on medical informatics

Bioinformatics is a combination of information technology and biology. Bioinformatics enables the analysis of biological data using computational techniques. Some of the applications of bioinformatics on medical informatics is

1. Discovery of drugs
2. Drug design- for increasing the efficiency, to study the side effects etc
3. To understand the 3D structure of proteins
4. to study the active site of enzymes/drugs
5. Used to create personalized drugs for application disease conditions such as cancer, Diabetes and HIV-AIDS
6. Help in preparation of preventive medicine
7. Applied in gene therapy