Molecular biophysics typically addresses biological questions similar to those in biochemistry and molecular biology, but more quantitatively. Scientists in this field conduct research concerned with ...
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science using methods of, and theories from, physics to study biological systems. Biophysics spans all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to ...
Somatotypology is the study of somatotypes or constitutional types. The objective is to produce a classification system that enables an observer to make determinations of the susceptibiity of a person ...
Biomedical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology, predominantly found in US academic and public health settings, that incorporates perspectives from the biological and medical anthropology subfie ...
Human biology is an interdisciplinary academic field consisting of contributions from biology, anthropology, and medicine which focuses on humans; it is closely related to primate biology, and a numbe ...
Scientific physical anthropology began in the 18th century with the study of racial classification. In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the sc ...
As a subfield of anthropology, biological anthropology itself is further divided into several branches. All branches are united in their common application of evolutionary theory to understanding huma ...
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline in which research is concerned with the biological and behavioral variation of human beings, other non-human pr ...
There are several large conferences that are concerned with bioinformatics. Some of the most notable examples are Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), European Conference on Computational ...
Software tools for bioinformatics range from simple command-line tools, to more complex graphical programs and standalone web-services available from various bioinformatics companies or public institu ...
Main articles: List of biological databases and Biological databaseDatabases are essential for bioinformatics research and applications. There is a huge number of available databases covering almost e ...
Literature analysisMain articles: Text mining and Biomedical text miningThe growth in the number of published literature makes it virtually impossible to read every paper, resulting in disjointed sub- ...
Main articles: Computational systems biology, Biological network, and InteractomeNetwork analysis seeks to understand the relationships within biological networks such as metabolic or protein-protein ...
Main article: Structural bioinformaticsPrediction of protein structureMain article: Protein structure predictionProtein structure prediction is another important application of bioinformatics. The ami ...
Analysis of gene expressionThe expression of many genes can be determined by measuring mRNA levels with multiple techniques including microarrays, expressed cDNA sequence tag (EST) sequencing, serial ...
