Introduction to basics of bioinformatics

As we know that bioinformatics is recognized as the science of the 21st century and has tremendous potential for decoding complex biological systems via analysis and integration of multiomics data. It is a need of time to gain a deep understanding of the subject, methods, and applications for novel discovery. In the era of omics and advances of high-throughput sequencing technology, a huge amount of molecular data are frequently submitted in international data repositories by the group of scientists from all over the world, which needs expert bioinformatician and data scientist with strong theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields for their analysis. They will help in knowledge discovery and this information will also be utilized for the development of bioinformatics tools and improved the accuracy of available tools/software; besides, identified information will be documented for further use in the form of an electronic database. Therefore this chapter provides an in-depth knowledge of the bioinformatics concept, aim, needs, recent development, challenges, application, and future perspective.