/sci/ - Science & Math

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Bioinformatics is very much a statistical discipline, the questions you may ask are statistical in nature, e.g. the statistical (probabilistic) properties of certain motifs (subsequences) in different strands of DNA. Another question might be about the relationship of certain genes with each other (i.e. correlation) and a certain observed disease or phenotype

Mathematical biology on the other hand is inspired by certain problems in applied mathematics, problems like modelling osmosis and diffusion using certain PDEs. Modelling cancer growth, populations of bacteria using either PDEs or stochastic processes (or SPDEs).

So they both look at different problems in biology with different areas of mathematics, a good intersection of the two is probably in modelling evolutionary processes.