Dear friends and colleagues,

Broadly speaking, bioinformatics covers the interdisciplinary studies of biological objects (including genes, proteins, and physiological indices) using informatics methods, such as various algorithms and statistical methods. Specifically, complex biological data can be processed using computer tools, which is common practice in dedicated databases, such as in nucleic acid databases, protein databases, and custom functional databases ,In recent days, sequencing technologies are evolving at a rapid pace in different sequencing chemistry with a huge volume of sequences. The output dataset provides a path for the biologist to travel and explore the unknown world of microbial life. But to decode the informations locked in the genome and time of processing requires potential pipelines and platforms. Through different software and tools, computational biologists and bioinformaticians are the in-progress of optimising multiple programming approaches to assist biologists to unravel the hidden secrets by analysing and interpret huge volumes of data from genomes, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and DNA-microarray gene expression. Given that multifactorial traits involved in resistance and quality are extremely difficult to improve, especially in combinations, and some of the genomes of major forage crops, such as maize, rice, wheat, sorghum and barley, and the forage legumes soybean and alfalfa, are too large to be analyzed using whole-genome sequencing, attention has been focused on comparative genomic approaches in order to produce seeds with desirable shapes. Moreover, it provides insights into the ecology and functions of the interactions and helps to better understand the dynamics within microbial communities and their interactions with hosts and the ecological niches.

We are therefore interested in bringing the application of state-of-the-art computational pipelines in microbiology research to empirical findings in the field of Breeding and Bioinformatics. In this section, we invite research articles and reviews on the use of computational tools in microbiology research and their sources.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Bizhan Mahmoudi

Section Editors