Bioinformatics for bioremediation

Résumé

Bioinformatics is the combination of biology and information technology which focuses on cellular and molecular levels for application in modern biotechnology. Bioremediation is the recent technology which explores the microbial potentiality for biodegradation of xenobiotics compounds. Microorganisms display a remarkable range of contaminant degradation ability that can efficiently and effectively restore natural environmental conditions. Attempts have been
made to interpret some areas of genomics and proteomics which have been employed in bioremediation studies .Bioinformatics requires the study of microbial genomics, proteomics, systems biology, computational biology, phylogenetic trees, data mining and application of major bioinformatics tools for determining the structures and biodegradative pathways of xenobiotic compounds. This paper highlights the significance of bioinformatics concepts applied in the bioremediation fields.