Computational biology encompasses numerous other fields, including bioinformatics, computational biomodeling, computational genomics, molecular modeling, and protein structure prediction.

Computational biology allows scientists to use principals of theory to calculate the crux of a living system and biological processes. This is done on prediction and formation of algorithms based on data patterns. Emerging tools in bioinformatics includes machine learning from enormous data. These computational biologists rely on other disciplines such as mathematics in the form of statistics. Overall, deeper knowledge of biological life can benefit from bioinformatics tools.