Bioinformatics + Interaction Design.

Why We need Interaction Design for Bioinformatics?

Bioinformatics comprises  of databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the management and analysis of biological data.In the process of Bioinformatics we will go through following steps.

•         Online Biological Research
•         Use Gene-Centric databases
•         Visualize protein in 3D
•         Interpret and analyse sequence

Therefore its important to understand the right tools in order to explore human genome and DNA sequence.Furthermore Its very important to understand the Interaction process in order to design efficient bioinformatics tools.For instance www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez and  www.expasy.org/sprot are the examples of bioinformatics tools.But its hard to interact with above tools without having basic computer knowledge because of interaction complexity.We can use interaction design principals and modern technologies to eliminate complexity and enhance the interaction even for biologists and researchers who have less computer competence.