
Bioinformatics is a newly emerging interdisciplinary research area which may be
defined as the interface between biological and computational
sciences. Thus, the people
working in this field in most cases either have a training in biology or
computer science, and they learned about the other field by dealing with
problems or using the tools of the other one. Although the term 'Bioinformatics' is not really well-defined, you could say that
this scientific field deals with the computational management of all kinds of
biological information, whether it may be about genes and their products,
whole organisms or even ecological systems. Most of the bioinformatics work that is being done deals can be described as
analyzing biological data, although a growing number of projects deal with the
organization of biological information.