Computing is Essential to Contemporary Biology

Most biological computing falls into four broad categories:

• Computers have become essential to the collection, storage, integration and retrieval of massive quantities of biological data
  
  
• Analyze data to find biologically meaningful patterns, patterns, and more patterns
  
  
• Visualize data to make it easy to understand and interpret
  • The fastest growing area of computing (along with modeling below)
  
  
• Dynamic modeling of biological systems in support of the scientific method
  • As useful tools become available across application domains, modeling has been growing MUCH faster than programming