Have you ever needed to search up the definition of bioinformatics before? Perhaps it had been mentioned in one of your molecular biology classes, or maybe you needed to explain to somebody what you were studying. A simple online search tells us that bioinformatics is the ‘intersection’ of life science, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. But what exactly is this intersection? Let’s try to answer this using a concrete example by exploring a branch of computer science currently experiencing tremendous attention.
-- ARTICLE: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics