Special Issue on Marine Bioinformatics Greetings from Informatics Studies Ocean covers about 70 percent of earth’s surface and is home for around one million known species of organisms and millions more microbes. Around 2000 new species are identified per year from ocean revealing the rich biodiversity of marine life. Yet, ocean is highly unexplored in terms of species richness and chemical and molecular diversity. Advancements in informatics has revolutionized marine biological research with generation, management and transmission of information on aquatic realm in time contributing to quality, relevance and speed of research. Use of tools provided by informatics have enabled marine biotechnology to deliver novel therapeutic agents, analytical tools and novel compounds for industrial applications through data generated by research worldwide. Introduction to marine-specific reference resources, repositories, databases, registries, documentation systems, marine data management systems Omics revolution in marine biology: Genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, meta-transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, nutrigenomics, omics in discovery of marine resources and exploration of their molecular processes Biodiversity informatics: Computational tools for modelling and prediction of marine biodiversity, biodiversity loss, distribution pattern of marine organisms, ecological interactions, habitat, genomic approaches for studying and exploring biodiversity in oceans, species identification Bioinformatics of marine natural and derived products, drug discoveries from marine organisms, Sustainable development by use of marine resources, bioinformatics tools for marine biotechnology Role of informatics in advancement of marine research, scientometric studies and perspectives, challenges and bottlenecks of marine informatics |