ABSTRACT
182In today’s society, bioinformatics research is putting a great emphasis on answering “when,” “what if,” and “why” questions with the help of information technology. Researchers had argued that it could be the key factor in facilitating and attaining an efficient decision-making in medical research. With the current deluge of data, computational methods have become indispensable to biological investigations. Originally developed for the analysis of biological sequences, bioinformatics now encompasses a wide range of subject areas, including structural biology, genomics, and gene expression studies. Additionally, nowadays biological data are proliferating rapidly. With the advent of the World Wide Web and fast Internet connections, the data contained in these databases and a considerable amount of specialpurpose programs can be accessed quickly and efficiently from any location in the world. As a consequence, computer-based tools now play an increasingly significant role in the advancement and development of biological research. This study investigates the role of information technology in enabling science as well as the consequences and implication of technology in supporting medical research and bioinformatics.
