I'd like to invite you to read the paper entitled "Can Bioinformatics Be Considered as an Experimental Biological Science?" available at http://www.openscienceonline.com/journal/archive2?journalId=705&paperId=2496

Bioinformatics could be considered an experimental interdisciplinary science that helps to understand, to obtain and to evaluate new knowledge in biosciences by making use of information technology and computer science.