Reminds me of the comic where some guy made a script for ordering Indian food automatically, but he kept just getting orders of naan bread no matter what he ordered, until he finally found the NaN in the script.
Computational biology and ecology are a huge part of those fields. I work at a research lab (in computer science) and one of our sister labs is dedicated to environmental stuff and has mostly biologists and ecologists employed at it; a large part of the research they do involves supercomputing somehow, so we tend to partner with them a lot. As an example, modeling population growth or decline due to a change in the population's environment is one such use of computing and statistics in biology and ecology.
That's a fantastic name