Author: Ashwani Kumar. Contributor: Ashwani Kumar (Edited by). In this text we provide an introduction and overview of the current state of the field. The aims of bioinformatics are threefold. First, at its simplest bioinformatics organises data in a way that allows researchers to access existing information and to submit new entries as they are produced, e.g. the Protein Data Bank for 3D macromolecular structures.