Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Bioinformatics....

In case you are wondering what do Bioinformatics experts do.

Biological questions can be explored through wetlab experimental work - the traditional arena of biologists - or through modeling and simulation in virtual environments, also known as drylab research or computational biology. The later is more generally the domain of mathematicians and algorithm researchers. Of course wetlab research is used to develop better models to describe our understanding of biology, while drylab research needs to validate its' results through wetlab experimentation. Thus wet~ and drylab biology is closely related.

Bioinformatics is about improving the methods and technologies for the management and manipulation of data used by people trying to answer biological questions.

So what do I do or what do I intend to do? I intend to be a computational biologist who not only models systems computationally but also verifies those results experimentally in the laboratories. I dont think there can be a more satisfying feeling for a computational designer.

1 comment:

the Wanderer said...

interesting ...