Bug

The first computer bug was not a fault in a computer program but was a real 'bug', an insect. To be exact, a moth that landed on the computer equipment. That was not so difficult, because in those days, 1945, a computer easily filled half a classroom. The scientists who found the insect, stuck it in their logbook and wrote underneath 'first actual case of bug being found'.

Bio-information scientists are not working on computer bugs but on a combination of computer science and living organisms. Simply put, they solve biological problems with the help of computer science. Every day tons of data about living organisms is produced - just think of the ever growing DNA databanks. All this data makes it possible for us make new inroads into scientific research, find connections and to think of solutions - but you have to know how. Bio-information scientists can solve the most complicated biological problems with their computers or do research with would be unthinkable if done 'by hand'.

That is not only useful for science but also, for instance, for putting murderers behind bars.