Welcome to Santrupti's world! In my blog, you will find some interesting things about Algorithms and data structures and their use in the field of biology. Yes! You heard it right. Welcome to Bioinformatics.
Why Bioinformatics ?
I took bioinformatics course out of curiosity to try out something other than programming. Did you know that a single cell stores a huge amount of data that defines a person? Quite perplexing right! Well this is how important DNA can be. Working with a biologist, I learnt about the humongous amounts of data generated by sequencing. Mining this data and analyzing it is a highly complex problem to solve. It requires an intelligent software that can effectively manage the memory and processing power. Even with this, it takes hours and some times days for the program to generate the required analysis. Now this is where my strengths come in handy. I have been involved in programming in C for quite some time now. I have played with other programming languages like C++, Java, C# and Perl during my undergraduate days. Bioinformatics is one course where you get to learn computer science, statistics and biology, a rare combination!
So what is it that I want to do?
Looking at the real challenges in bioinformatics, the one that prods me the most is integrating the data generated and developing models of complex systems. Basically, simulation modelling and prediction. Prediction of ? The susceptibility of a baby just born, to a particular disease in the future. Well, that's the goal. But as an amateur computer scientist and a bioinformatician, I want to make prediction of proteins and other important sites in a gene, so as to further the research of fellow biologists. Hopefully we will be able to find cures to some of the chronic diseases we face today.
