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Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary study that has been growing ever since its creation in 1970. It is a combination of countless fields such as molecular biology, computer science, chemistry, and mathematics. By using computational tools, bioinformatics allows for biological data to be analyzed and easily managed, making new discoveries, and allows further understanding of human diseases along with designing new medicines and finding new purposes for old ones. All-in-all, before its creation, no other field of science alone would be able to handle the problems bioinformatics is able to answer.

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With this new field creation, came the new question of how to store and curate all of the data provided. Databases allow for easy data retrieval and are very easily searchable. These databases compare sequences, identify genes and proteins along with many other useful tools. In this project, databases were used to obtain all information provided on this webpage. BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) gave the gene associated with the given amino acid sequence. Other databases, such as NCBI, NCBI AceView, OMIM, ClinVar, and Eukaryotic Promoter Database, were used to gather the remainder of the information to provide an extensive comprehension in regards to the gene of interest. 

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By using and applying bioinformatics tools available, the identification of a single gene was obtained using only the partial amino acid sequence. Prior to the introduction of the bioinformatics field, this project would have taken an extensive amount of time. However, thanks to the useful database tools, the information needed to complete this project was easily accessible and easy to use. The development and need for a field such as bioinformatics was much needed and now applicable to all aspects of science.