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bioinformatics
Using computers in biological research to analyze or predict the composition of molecules (nucleic acids, proteins, etc.) and model biologic systems. Bioinformatics is most prominent in the Human Genome Project, which has recorded the three billion chemical base pairs that make up the human DNA system. See Human Genome Project.
bioinformatics [‚bī·ō‚in·fər′mad·iks]
(computer science)
The use of computers to study biological systems.

(application)bioinformatics - The field of science concerning the application of computer science and information technology to biology; using computers to handle biological information, especially computational molecular biology.


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Surprisingly, working together with University of Toronto bioinformaticians, the team found that trees used different drought response gene programs at different times of day.
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This paper suggests that the real variation leading to the human lineage is structural," says Mark Gerstein, a bioinformatician at Yale University.
 
 
 
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