What exactly is "BIOINFORMATICS"?

This is supposed to be the first question that shud pop up into every newbies brain but I think we can easily guess out the "literal" meaning as something that is involving BIO+INFORMATICS and can give you a simple answer by writing (BIO+INFORMATICS= BIOINFORMATICS).

In this blog i would like to depict the true works that goes on behind this simple equation...

What we study in bio informatics:

Biotechnology & its applications.

Micro & Molecular biology

Computing languages(C,C++,JAVA,.NET...).
Scripting languages (PERL, Python, Bio-PERL, Bio-RUBY..)

Database management system(DBMS), Relational(RDBMS)..

Sql, My-Sql.

Mathematical Concepts and applications involving integration, calculus, and graph theory..

In short Bioinformatics is the integrated application of all the above mentioned topics into further studies(Advanced study) involving:

GENOMICS

structural genomics

functional genomics

PROTEOMICS

NANOTECHNOLOGY

RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (in biological mol. simulations)

GRID COMPUTING for datamanagement

SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

PHARMACOGENOMICS

PHARMACOGENETICS

BIOPHYSICS

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

PHARMACOINFORMATICS

AGROINFORMATICS

In-Silico ADME(Tox) prediction

CHEMINFORMATICS