Preface

Bio-Informatics is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.

To address the requirements of these efforts, a wide spectrum of bio-informatics tools are available. These tools, while powerful, are packaged according to the individual tastes of the developers.

The Bio-informatics Roll is a collection of some of the most common bio-informatics tools that are being used by the community today. This roll is being developed in an attempt to standardize and ease packaging and installation of these tools.