Differentiate between Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics

Will you please share with me the difference between Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics?

[Arun Vats]

As you want to get the difference between Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics so here it is for you:

Medical Informatics is an applied discipline which lies in the intersection of computer science and medicine.

It also draws from areas of library and information science, statistics, health policy making, and others.

It is the science of how to collect and manage medical and health information using computers.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary subject which integrates fields like biology, chemistry, biophysics, biostatistics and computer science to solve biological problems.

The ultimate goal of Bioinformatics is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create global perspective from which unifying principles in biology can be discerned.

The main difference between these both are Medical Informatics is more concerned with structures and algorithms for the manipulation of medical data, rather than with the data itself and bioinformatics is concerned with information about cellular and biomolecular structures and systems.

List of some of the best colleges of Bioinformatics in India:

1. Indian Institute of Information Technology : Bioinformatics Division, Allahabad( Uttar Pradesh )

2. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai( Tamil Nadu )

3. SRM University, Chennai( Tamil Nadu )

4. University of Pune : Bioinformatics Centre, Pune( Maharashtra )

5. Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore( Karnataka )

6. Pondicherry University : Bioinformatics Centre, Puducherry( Puducherry )

7. University of Calcutta, Kolkata( West Bengal )

8. Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi( Delhi )

9. Satyam Sri Services, Bangalore( Karnataka )

10. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad( Andhra Pradesh )

11. Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Pune

12. Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST), Thiruvalla, Kerala

13. Bharthiyar University, Muruthamalai Road, Coimbatore

14. Periyar University, Government College of Engineering Campus, Salem

15. Amity Institute of Biotechnology, RBEF, E-27, Defence Colony, New Delhi

16. Bharatisadan University, Palkalaiperur, Tiruchchirappalli

17. Tamil Nadu GD Naidu Agricultural University, Coimbatore