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I have seen a distinction made between "bioinformatics" - analysing biological data with software - and "computational biology" - using biological systems to do
by gilleain 5y ago
I have seen a distinction made between "bioinformatics" - analysing biological data with software - and "computational biology" - using biological systems to do computing.
What OP seems to be talking about is systems modelling, where you model the network of genes and proteins (genomics and proteomics) using tools partly derived from modelling of computer networks.
- epgui 5y agoThat's not how I would explain bioinformatics and computational biology... What people often mean when they say bioinformatics is actually computational biology: using computer software, algorithms and other such tools to analyze biological data. Bioinformatics is the development of new tools, new algorithms and new methods to do computational biology. In other words, a bioinformatician is to a computer scientist what a computational biologist is to a data scientist. Using biological systems to do computing is more in the realm of "biological computers".