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.
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.
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CISPA researcher Sarath Sivaprasad, together with Hui-Po Wang and Mario Fritz from CISPA and other colleagues from HIPS, has developed an AI system that can automatically detect abnormalities in zebrafish embryo development. ...
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In June, Google DeepMind took the wraps off AlphaGenome, its latest machine learning model for biological discovery. While DeepMind's Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold model focuses on proteins and how they fold, AlphaGenome ...
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A study published in June reveals that fragmented communication and coordination undermine the effectiveness of Europe's leading biodiversity research infrastructures (BioRIs). The research led by Allan T. Souza, Tomáš Martinovič, ...
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A frog croaks from a walking trail. A hiker snaps a photo and uploads it to iNaturalist. That single act—one person, one amphibian and one click—feeds into a growing global dataset that scientists now use to map shifting ...
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An international joint research effort has created a new standard framework that simplifies and enhances the accuracy and efficiency of synthetic biology research. This framework is anticipated to serve as an international ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Understanding human biology requires more than mapping our genes—we must also understand how gene expression is regulated to guide healthy development, growth, and maintenance of our body systems over a lifetime.
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