
Why Are Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics So Important? | 495
Bioinformatics tools help biomedical informaticists and healthcare personnel
tackle the analysis of large data sets. The authors believe that biomedical infor-
matics uses bioinformatics, whereas computational biology is their action com-
plement. Therefore, using bioinformatics and computational biology to analyze
and interpret intricate biologic events, biomedical informaticists promote health
and improve patient care. Biomedical informatics and bioinformatics may seem
similar but if one thinks of biomedical informatics as focusing on health care and
patients, it helps distinguish ...