Subdisciplines
From Bioinformatics.Org Wiki
The following represent the major subdisciplines and allied fields of bioinformatics. It can also be considered a list of major categories and topics in the field. Please note that some of the fields listed have existed before there even were computers (e.g., genetics) but may use them so extensively now that they can be considered allied fields.
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Computing for biology (computer science-oriented topics)
- Data acquisition, e.g. LIMS
- Work flow and pipelining
- Data mining
- Pattern recognition
- Natural language processing - the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, e.g. in literature mining
- Machine learning - the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data
- Databases and knowledge management
- Data visualization
- Ontologies - the formal representation of sets of concepts within domains and the relationships between those concepts
- High performance computing
Biology with computers (biology-oriented topics)
- Sequence analysis
- Omics
- Genomics - the study of the genomes of organisms
- Proteomics - the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions
- Genetics - the science of heredity and variation in living organisms
- Systematics - the study of the diversity of organism characteristics
- Phylogenetics - the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms
- Structure analysis
- Function analysis
- Systems biology - the study of the interactions between the components of biological systems
Mathematics for biology (math-oriented topics)
Biochemistry with computers (chemistry-oriented topics)
- Biocheminformatics and computational biochemistry
- Molecular modeling
- Biopathways - computational pathways biology
- Biochip analysis - miniaturized laboratories that can perform multiple simultaneous biochemical reactions, e.g. microarrays
