In this review, we provide a systematic definition of bioinformatics as shown in Box 1.We focus on the first and third aims just described, with particular reference to the keywords: information, informatics, organisation, understanding, large-scale and practical applications.
This paper provides a survey of the various evolutionary algorithm- based techniques that have been developed over the past few years for different bioinformatics tasks. First, we describe
the basic concepts of bioinformatics along with their biological basis. Methodology for applying GAs to bioinformatics tasks is also mentioned in Section II. In Section III, various bioinformatics tasks and different evolutionary algorithms based methods available to address the bioinformatics tasks are explained. Finally, conclusions and some future research directions
are presented in Section IV.