Maria Luisa Chiusano
The well-established role of bioinformatics in support of structural and functional genomics does not need extensive presentation, nowadays. This multidisciplinary research area, evolving preliminarily for biological data management and distribution, after the initial delivery of nucleic acid and protein structure, was soon revealed to be also appropriate in providing tools for data analysis, integration and modeling. Indeed, bioinformatics is suitable not only for detecting value added information from omics data, but also for paving the way for the prediction of emergent properties from holistic investigations of massive, heterogeneous collections.
