What’s the difference between bioinformatics and computational biology?

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What’s the difference between bioinformatics and computational biology?

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I believe computational biology is more about applications such as AlphaFold, which uses machine learning to predicted protein folding. Bioinformatics was always presented to me within the context of searching a specific base pair sequence and comparing it against the library of known allele sequences. So from just a string of A’s, T’s, C’s, & G’s you can find out which organism that sequence belongs to, which other organisms have similar alleles, etc.