What is machine learning in bioinformatics?
There are over 3 billion base pairs (molecular pieces of information) in the human genome, and on average, 3 million, differences between two individual humans. These differences are transcribed into RNA, which are further sliced and diced before being translated into proteins which drive cellular processes through enzymatic interactions and cell-cell signaling. All these differences and complex processes must be unravelled in order to better understand biological organisms and also to improve human healthcare.