Bioinformatics Custom Computing

• bioinformatics
– “bioinformatics is the application of computer
science and information technology to the
field of biology” [Wikipedia]
– works on genome information
• many applications
– understanding of biologic processes, e.g.
interaction of genes
– protein structure prediction
– drug discovery and design
• computationally intensive methods
– data mining
– pattern recognition
– machine learning
– visualization
definition, image: Wikipedia
What is Bioinformatics?