This document discusses applications and trends in data mining for biological data analysis. It outlines how the explosive growth of genomics, proteomics, and biomedical research has led to the need for data mining techniques. Some key applications of data mining discussed include semantic integration of heterogeneous biological databases, sequence alignment and analysis, discovery of genetic networks and protein pathways, association analysis to identify co-occurring genes, and visualization tools. Biological data mining has become essential for research in bioinformatics.