Software is used and an answer is 'calculated'.
However, somewhere inbetween there is data. In the introduction we already discussed that bioinformatics often deals with data such as the human genome, or the genome of arabidopsis thaliana. Data can be stored in databases or databanks. Macromolecular structures Important macromolecular data such as protein sequences, nucleic acid sequences or protein structures are collected in international databases. The institutes that collect the data annotate and validate the data to a varying extent.