The work included in specific career areas are protein characterization and their interaction, comparison of the genetic data within and between species, drug designing by using 3D structure modeling and computational chemistry, genomic analysis for finding the drug targets, predicting the gene function and proteins depending on the sequence and structure data.
Which is better, bioinformatics or biotechnology?
It is one of the most common questions that pertain to the practical courses of Biology. Biotechnology is any technological application that makes use of biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives for creating or modifying products or the processes for specified services. In simple terms, biotechnology is one of the interdisciplinary sectors that build some of the major disciplines of biology. At the same time, Bioinformatics is another interdisciplinary sector that includes the fields like statistics, computer sciences, engineering, and math for collecting and analyzing complex biological data. Bioinformatics makes use of the in silico analysis by utilizing mathematical algorithms and some predictions depending on the extrapolation.
Some of the questions will help you in figuring out which one will suit your personality:
- Do you enjoy working on computers for an extended period, or do you enjoy doing things in your own hand?
- Are you good at figuring out patterns and generating programming sequences, or do you enjoy working with chemicals?
- Does your strength lies in mathematics, or are you good at grasping biological concepts?
So, these are the basic questions, and if you select the first half of them, you are highly oriented towards bioinformatics. Towards the latter, you are prone to biotechnology.
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Nowadays, as everything is online, bioinformatics might be a better option for research projects!