Current efforts in molecular biology are producing an abundance of data that provides exciting opportunities for knowledge discovery, as well as an increasing problem of information overload. Bioinformatics concerns the development of new tools for the analysis of genomic and molecular biological data, including:
* Sequence analysis
* Phylogenetic inference
* Genome database organization and mining
* Optical computation and holographic memory
* Pattern recognition and image analysis
* Biologically inspired computational models
* genetic algorithms
* neural networks
* machine learning
* artificial life
* Modeling of complex biological and molecular processes