Library Services for Bioinformatics: Establishing Synergy Data Information and Knowledge

Bioinformatics And Its Research Domain

The bioinformatics research area involves the in-silico analysis of genomics data generated though laboratory experiments. Biological data are being produced at an unprecedented rate on a daily basis conjuring up in managing and integrating these data in a more precise and meaningful manner. It can be evident from the exponential growth in the database in every year. As an example the current version of European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) database consists of 199,575,971 entries with 301,588,430,608 nucleotides (Leinonen et al., 2010). After the completion of Human Genome Project in 2003 and the result obtained though this project has revealed and opens several doors of science and computation research in a variety of subject areas including bioinformatics. Completion of human genome project has generated immense interest to biotechnology industry and pharmaceutical companies. The research focus includes diagnosis of genes and their altered functions associated with diseases, identification of therapeutic targets and designing drugs against them, development of biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis, etc. at individual level. Besides, genome sequences of many more organisms are available and are accessible publicly which has generated tremendous interest among the biologists for translational research throughout the globe.