Hello Malika,

this presentation (http://de.slideshare.net/ChristianFrech/how-to-be-a-bioinformatician) by Christian Frech is a very good starting point for learning more about the scope of bioinformatics.

Best regards

It is the attempt to understand biotic issues and predict biological behaviour through logics and matematics: this is made via computing experimental data into consistent graphics and trying to extrapolate algorithms and recurrences. At a higher level, its purpose is to determine how much life is computable. 

Thank you Federico..kindly would you like to tell regarding its scope?

Hello Malika,

this presentation (http://de.slideshare.net/ChristianFrech/how-to-be-a-bioinformatician) by Christian Frech is a very good starting point for learning more about the scope of bioinformatics.

Best regards

.You can check out some of the bioinformatics lecture on my publication list. 

Data Bioinformatics Lecture 1 (Biological Sequences1) 2009

Malika,

The university where I got my undergraduate degree now specializes in BioInformatics, you might be able to contact one of the professors listed here - http://bioinformatics.cse.sc.edu

Hi Malika Eman,

The attached paper would help you to understand the scope of bioinformatics. Hope it does.

Regards

I dont think anyone really know the answer to your question. I think the scope of bioinformatics depends on who is answering your question and what they have done and how they have defined it. 

Segun

Bioinformatics is mathematical and conceptual modelling of biological entities and processes so that computational tools and resources can be used to enable working with big datasets. Examples include Monte Carlo simulations of protein folding, transcriptomics analysis using microarrays or RNA-Seq, proteomics analysis using mass spectrometry, design of ontologies related to biological concepts.

Bioinformatics is broadly any interdisciplinary treatment or application of mathematical theories, statistical tests, and computational methods to biological research questions. It is often confused with computational biology, although I think the difference is trivial, since bioinformatics is such a diverse and rapidly changing field that is difficult to compare the two.

The scope of a bioinformatics project (or lab) varies widely depending on the balance of math/stats, computational/software/engineering, and biological/molecular training of the researchers involved and the data orsubject matter they deal with particularly DNA sequences, gene expression, protein, epigenetics, or networks and systems biology.

Therefore I would emphasise the wide range of applications, stimulating collaborative nature of the field, and the transferable future-proof skills involved in the field rather than it's current (or past) scope.

Bioinformatics philosophical scope: Is it possible to model life(bio) processes -- from a macro, biome level, to a micro, molecular level -- in form of mathematical predictability? If Yes why is life amenable to scientific mathematical investigation? Intellgently designed? Evolution mimicking intelligence? Or it just happens....no limit to philosophical reasoning!

Bioinformatic theoretical and developmental scope: This is, I think, the hardest part of bioinformatic, the most demanding but the most rewarding. The cutting edge of bioinformatics is to observe a pattern of life processes and try to develop mathematical equations, statistical models and computation algorithm based on certain assumptions  on how life works. Mathematical, statistical models and equations for gene predictions based on Bayesian assumptions? Computation algorithms for gene prediction based on Hidden Markov Models? You wont get a job at any prestigious university unless you are a bioinformatic practicioner in at this scope.

Bioinformatic analytical scope: Bioinformatic developers will normally develop tools out of their hard work. We, rank and file bioinformatic graduate students, rely on these tools, at least to make sense of a newly sequenced genomes, analyze our ecological data based on their models or use certain statistical package developed by that acclaimed author to weed out uninteresting genes from target genes.

So it is not easy to classify bioinformatic scope but at least that is my understanding of how the state of bioinformatics currently is.

the field you are asking about.... is a new emerging area in Pakistan..

Hopefully people in the area will have a good professional growth opportunities...

till now a limited application in a fewer institutions here...

but a person can do a vast research of huge scope in it... extensive data available.. 

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary research field that combines biology, computer

science, mathematics and statistics into a broad-based field that will have profound

impacts on all fields of biology. The emphasis of IJBRA is on basic bioinformatics

research methods, tool development, performance evaluation and their applications

in biology. IJBRA addresses the most innovative developments, research issues and

solutions in bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications.

More information here,

www.inderscience.com/info/leaflet.php?filename=IJBRA_leaflet.pd

Ok in light of further reading I retract my comment about bioinformatics and computational biology. Although I would still regard myself as working in both areas. This is fairly good summary:

http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-computational-biology-same-no/

In addition to many review/commentary papers (esp. in PLoS Comp Bio), including satire, there are a vast number of blogs and twitter activity on this topic by reputable bioinformaticians which I would recommend looking into if you're interested in the field.

There is lot of research is going on in Bioinformatics and in future it will be key area to assist Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical. Currently, the bioinformatics and bioinformatics database which have been established in last two decades are basically static need more emphasis to design new tools and database. In such scenario it will be the one of leading area of modern science and technology. 

Bioinformatics in wide sense includes the use computers sciences to handle biological information

Thank you Christian Q. Scheckhuber, 

it gave really sense to understand in initial level..

Good point you mentioned Sir(Tom Kelly),

"Therefore I would emphases the wide range of applications, stimulating collaborative nature of the field, and the transferable future-proof skills involved in the field rather than it's current (or past) scope."

thank you for your help..now, i have looked many searches available on net at International level. now i wanted some national publications too.

However, i got. thanks.

Yeah sir(S. Fatumo), indeed it does really matter to make a conclusion.

Thanks a lot Sir Jerrold (Jerry) Heyman to provide helpful contact in this regards..

I'm Obliged to All of YOU for your time to share helpful stuff as well yours perspectives..it helped a lot to reach any conclusion regarding this..

Blessed!

I think, this will be very helpful for u.

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioinformatics/for_authors/scope_guidelines.html