Bioinformatics - Reflexions

Bioinformatics

A multidisciplinary research field in which biologists, computer specialists, mathematicians and physicists work together in order to answer biological questions whilst leaning on methods with origins in statistics, mathematics and computer science. Examples of their fields of application are modelling the evolution of an animal population in a given environment, molecular modelling, digital image analysis, genome assembly or the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. This discipline constitutes ‘_in silico_’ biology, by analogy with _in vitro_ and _in vivo_ biology.