The technology's profile has risen dramatically thanks to the impending completion of the human genome sequence. It is really the hub of all modern biology discovery processes.
All experiments start out, go through, or end up with bioinformatics.
The NCBI maintains GenBank, the primary repository of raw genomic sequence. We tried to create what we called a discovery system instead of a data retrieval system. A data retrieval system is something that works if you get the data out that you put in. The NCBI has supported bioinformatics research by collecting genomics datasets, scientific literature and available protein structure information. The agency has also put in place the necessary software tools and interfaces to make the data web accessible.