Life science researches have been profoundly impacted by technological advances allowing
faster and cheaper DNA sequencing. Opening a wide range of applications in medical and
biology, the last generation sequencing platforms raised new challenges, in particular in
processing, analysing and interpreting massive data. In this talk, the growing role of
bioinformatics will be illustrated by providing some figures about genome sequencing and
others applications aimed at unravelling biological mechanisms. Methods to gather insights
from massive amount of data will be illustrated by the genome annotation process, by which
genes are identified in the genome sequence.