Does bioinformatics pertain only to data mining?
No, it does not. It involves a lot more intensive research and analysis of the huge data that is unmanageable otherwise. A bioinformatician is usually involved in areas such as biological tool development – using neural networks, genetic algorithms; comparative genomics, functional genomics, structural genomics, database development and management, integration of various fields of life sciences to develop systems biology tools, phylogenetic analysis, proteomic studies, and the like.
