Disclaimer: I work in bioinformatics It's a bit of a weird thing to say that 'computational zoology' will be a field since zoology itself (and botany FWIW) has

Disclaimer: I work in bioinformatics It's a bit of a weird thing to say that 'computational zoology' will be a field since zoology itself (and botany FWIW) has become 'computational zoology'. Instead of comparing the way an arm looks or counting the number of stamen to delineate species, you now use molecular markers (SNPs, SSRs, gene presence/absence) to distinguish species, and you do that using computers instead of your magnifying glass. A recent example would be that 'giraffes are 4 species' paper - traditional zoologists had them down as one species based no the way they look, but the computer (DNA analysis) says they're four different ones. Biology is really shifting away from the lab to the computer - people who used to do 100% lab-based work now do 50% computer-based, 50% lab-based work (mileage may vary).