Analytical tools are necessary to make sense of the myriad of data collected by biologists.
Bioinformatics is the acquisition of biological knowledge by means of computational tools for the organization, management, and mining of biological data. Legion will then be used to perform large-scale computations across the databases. Together, these components create a discovery environment that will apply to many scientific disciplines. This challenge is being faced head-on by projects such as the PDB, which needs to link to databases that contain complementary information. The researcher pulls out of the application what he needs to do another analysis and uses the results in the next application.