The bioinformatics research during the COVID-19 pandemic has given an impulse to the development and adaption of various informatics techniques, including computational methods for tracing and tracking infected people, artificial intelligence methods and robotics applications to support remote patients assistance, collaborative data infrastructures for COVID-19 research and sentiment analysis methods for monitoring the impact of lockdown measures. The introduction of genomics and bioinformatics have contributed immensely to understand infectious disease from disease pathogenesis, mechanisms and the spread of antimicrobial resistance to host immune responses...Read more