The most pressing
tasks in bioinformatics involve the analysis of sequence information. Computational Biology is the name given to this process, and it
involves the following:
• Finding the genes in the DNA
sequences of various organisms
• Developing methods to predict the
structure and/or function of
newly discovered proteins and structural RNA sequences.
• Clustering protein sequences into
families of related sequences
and the development of protein models.
• Aligning similar proteins and
generating phylogenetic trees to
examine evolutionary relationships.