Bioinformatics and Fuzzy Logic

Many biological systems and objects are intrinsically fuzzy. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic are ideal frameworks for describing some biological systems/objects and providing suitable computational methods for a widely range of bioinformatics problems. In this paper, we present two examples of using fuzzy set theory in bioinformatics, one in fuzzy measurement of ontological similarity and its application in bioinformatics, and the other in the application of the fuzzy k-nearest neighbor algorithm in protein secondary structure prediction. We also review other "fuzzy" methods for bioinformatics applications.