Computational
biology is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of computer
science, applied mathematics and statistics to address biological problems. The
main focus lays on developing mathematical modeling and computational
simulation techniques. By these means it addresses scientific reaserch topics
with their theoretical and experimental questions without a laboratory. It
encompasses the fields of:
§ Bioinformatics: which applies algorithms and statistical
techniques to the interpretation, classification and understanding of
biological datasets.
§ Computational biomodeling: a field within biocybernetics
concerned with building computational models of biological systems.
§ Computational genomics: a field within genomics which
studies the genomes of cells and organisms.
§ Molecular modeling: which consists of modelling the
behaviour of molecules of biological importance.
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