Simply defined, Bioinformatics means application of information technology to biological systems encompassing the lower organisms to humans. The complete sequence of yeast is recently completed.
Parallel efforts are underway to sequence bacterial and plant genome.
Attempts to sequence other organisms are underway. The establishment of these sequencing efforts are well underway that we are looking ahead at this point to explore the post genome era. In order to derive benefit from this massive explosion of new information, it is essential that technology and trained personnel be in place to interpret and establish functions of the new genes. To accomplish this a whole new class of scientists with a very broad perspective need to emerge who have the ability to approach biological questions from a multi disciplinary point of view. Currently considerable efforts in training bioinformatics specialists come from the private sector and the academic community has been far behind in terms of clearly defined objectives .It is becoming increasingly apparent that industry alone can not sustain the work force needed to maintain pace with the explosion in genomics and bioinformatics .