Next generation sequencing and big data analysis. Personalised genomic medicine shall be another area of interest to manage human chronic and genetic diseases.
Just to add on to what Mr Shamsher has mentioned, other emerging areas in biotechnology also include nanotechnology, nanomedicine, protein sequencing and drug designs..
Yes, drug designing for obesity management may be an interesting option for bioinformatics study. Pick some enzyme and test phytomolecules or inhibitors through docking studies in silico.
Well, my view is different. The emerging topic is "to predict novel problem for the science community to solve." this can be from any areas of bioinformatics such as Genomics, Drug Design and High Performance Computing.
Yes that is true. Now BIG DATA analysis is another emerging approach to analyze important properties of the enormous data related to public services, human diseases etc.