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revolutionized the way research is done. It has provided more efficient way of doing research
in the area of therapeutics , drug development, proteomics and genomics. Regardless of
how precisely it has increased application in the field of Biological research, people know
very less about the area, its increasing scope and future prospects.
The field has two practitioners-Bioinformatists and Bioinformaticians. The Bioinformatists is a
skilled person who develops software, tools, interfaces for practical use of these tools with a
pure knowledge of their usage, on the other hand, a Bioinformaticians is an expert person
with knowledge of the application of these tools and software without a deeper
understanding of their workflows. So both are important in their own way.
Bioinformatics is not just about pushing buttons , instead Bioinformaticians have to keep in
mind each and every detail before performing any experiment or run the software. Any
software may have enormous settings required and that all depends on the understanding of
the working of software and biological data, which they have to understand in detail before
starting any kind of analysis because these parameters affect the final results. So the
thought that anybody can do it is a myth. Molecular dynamics study, docking , simulations,
genome analysis are an important aspects and area of study in bioinformatics, but it is not
just that . It is beyond that, with ,the understanding of the biology of the molecule worked
upon, its activities, behaviour and which algorithm will be apt to work on it and finally get the
best results for analysis.
Bioinformatics is all about hypothesis based on which we make predictions and generate
probabilistic results, similar to the cases in any other field of science. Thus this area is one of
the most required and evolving area, as we have enormous amount of genomic data
available, but need skilled Bioinformatists and Bioinformaticians to develop algorithms for
them and analyse the hidden information stored in the generated data.