Biological informatics is a scientific discipline focused on the acquisition, management, integration, analysis, and dissemination of biological data using computational and information-science methodologies. It encompasses the development of databases, data standards, ontologies, and software tools to handle diverse data types, including genomic, proteomic, phenotypic, ecological, and biodiversity data. The field emphasizes scalable data architectures, interoperability, and reproducible workflows to support hypothesis-driven and data-driven research. Biological informatics also addresses issues of data curation, metadata annotation, and knowledge representation, enabling complex queries, comparative analyses, and modeling across multiple biological scales, from molecules and organisms to populations and ecosystems.
A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed genome assembly (PIGA) method. By combining a cost-effective hybrid sequencing ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely available software tool that enables ...
Evolution
Apr 1, 2026
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Museum collections have underpinned scientific research for centuries. But physical specimens in boxes and drawers don't easily lend themselves to the research techniques of the new millennium. "How can we apply these techniques ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2026
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The word "nemotia" is a neologism, a newly coined term that in this case, describes the sense of overwhelmingness and disconnect accompanying the thought that nothing you do will ever make a difference. If this describes ...
Ecology
Mar 24, 2026
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The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for developing sophisticated computational systems, and the opposite is also true, with bioinformatics approaches providing keen insight into biological processes. However, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2026
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A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) in international collaboration, ovrlpy ...
Biotechnology
Feb 10, 2026
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Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The pipeline, named ELIE, ...
Ecology
Feb 5, 2026
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An international group of researchers says that biodiversity conservation and scientific research are not benefiting from the vast knowledge about the world's plants held by botanic gardens, because of fragmented data systems ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2026
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Cellarity, a biotechnology company developing cell state-correcting therapies through integrated multi-omics and AI modeling, reports the publication of a manuscript in the journal Science, which articulates a framework for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 23, 2025
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The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), in collaboration with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), has developed a comprehensive roadmap toward an integrated biological and environmental data network.
Other
Oct 15, 2025
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