Bioinformatics ( ) is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops
methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when
the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, chemistry,
physics, computer science, computer programming, information engineering,
mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret biological data. The
subsequent process of analyzing and interpreting data is referred to as
computational biology.
Computational, statistical, and computer programming techniques have been used
for computer simulation analyses of biological queries.