Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret the biological data. Bioinformatics has been used for in silico analyses of biological queries using mathematical and statistical techniques.

Translational bioinformatics is a budding field in the study of health informatics, focused on the convergence of molecular bioinformatics, biostatistics, statistical genetics and clinical informatics.  It focuses on applying informatics methodology to the increasing amount of biomedical and genomic data to invent knowledge and medical tools, which can be utilized by scientists, clinicians, and patients