Do Bioinformaticians only work with data from living organisms?

Question

[xinuke]

I was wondering if Bioinformatics covers any data that is not derived from living organisms. Can there ever be such a case?

I also have one more question; can we analyze psychotic disorders in Bioinformatics?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

if Bioinformatics covers any data that is not derived from living organisms.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=virus+bioinformatics

Astrobiology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22832998

I also have one more question; can we analyze psychotic disorders in Bioinformatics?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Schizophrenia+bioinformatics

[linus]

They are also interested in dead organisms:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ancient+genome+bioinformatics

[marina.v.yurieva]

plus forensics http://www.ijmbr.com/reviewed/1.1.6.pdf