Scientific Computing: Bioinformatics
Computer Science is a vague and endless space of ideas and functions. People unfamiliar with this term and industry are often confused on what a Computer Scientist refers too. A good example and practical use of the knowledge we have become accessible to is Bioinformatics.
For the standard scientist that we have all known commonly as docters, surgeons, pediatricians, chemist and biologist. They all deal with micro cellular levels of information. With modern technology we are now able to identify chromes of DNA and other cellular data. With technology advancing it has come to a point where there is too much of a workload that surpasses our capabilities. Bioinformatics is the study of those things listed.
One of the key challenges biologists face today is the growth of information, which expands too fast for scientists to analyze it. It is difficult to find a way to organize, study, and draw conclusions from all this information.
Genetic sequences that are commonly looked at are HIV, parkinsons and more. Using complex algorithms scientist are able to look at the differences between the nucleotide roots of the sequences. With all of these diseases and specimen presented to us there is an endless amount of research and cures that need to be made.
This field is bound to grow and will end up curing cancer. A good example of results are the Human Genome Project which showed the world the potential in investing into biological research.
Sources: http://www.bioplanet.com/what-is-bioinformatics/
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