ABSTRACT
The role of bioinformatics as a tool in molecular biology has quickly expanded hand in hand with the evolution of genomics and with expanding experimental designs and data sets. Informatics techniques have proven to be crucial when working with data produced by high-throughput experiments. The usual role of bioinformatics is gathering, processing and
1McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, 3775 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. 2Department of Plant Science, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada. *Corresponding author: martina.stromvik@mcgill.ca
organizing information in order to answer biological questions. Bioinformatics is also a powerful tool in the initial stages of designing an experiment. Figure 12-1 shows an example of the flow of data and information on the bioinformatics side of a sequencing project.
