Informatics is the science of information acquisition, storage, analysis, and presentation.
It may be the fundamental discipline of the 21st century, ubiquitously required by diverse fields of endeavor ranging from architecture to medicine. Bioinformatics is an emerging discipline, which combines efforts and advances in computer science, computational science, and various aspects of life science. While there is currently no generally agreed upon definition of 'bioinformatics,' one view is that bioinformatics is concerned with the creation and development of advanced information and computational technologies to solve problems in biology. That is, bioinformatics typically relies on techniques from informatics, involving efficient algorithms for manipulating large amounts of data stored and processed on high-performance computers, in order to obtain information about genomic or protein sequence data. A staple of bioinformatics is the creation and maintenance of databases of biological information.