Structural Bioinformatics is a field of study that uses data on macromolecular structures such as proteins, DNA, RNA, and complexes thereof to make new discoveries about living systems. Examples of areas covered are:
- Structure comparison and classification
- Structure prediction
- Protein-protein interactions
- Protein-ligand interactions
- Electrostatics
- Evolution
Examples of journals which cover the field are:
- Proteins; Structure, Function and Bioinformatics
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- Protein Science
- PLoS Computational Biology
The field is also described in Structural Bioinformatics 2003 Ed. P.E.Bourne & H. Weissig from John Wiley and Sons (A second edition from J. Gu and P.E.Bourne (Eds.) will be published early in 2009.