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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of computer science, mathematics, and information theory to organize and analyze complex biological data, especially genetic data.
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- noun biology, computer science A field of science in which
biology ,computer science , andinformation technology merge into a single discipline to analyse biological information using computers and statistical techniques.
Etymologies
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Ingénieur Bioinformaticienne is written by "Evelyne, is a research engineer in bioinformatics and has been actively writing for the last year on her career."
Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008
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Ingénieur Bioinformaticienne is written by "Evelyne, is a research engineer in bioinformatics and has been actively writing for the last year on her career."
Blog roll update: supplemental Peggy 2008
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In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For their part, contestants are constrained to so-called bioinformatics activities, designing DNA sequences from genomic-related information in a browser-based programming environment provided by SciNeS (Fig. 1).
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The school will also work towards providing curriculums in nanotechnology, the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale, and bioinformatics, which is a mix of biotechnology and computer science, in 2010.
The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories Melissa Reeves 2008
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-- the convergence of biology and computer science has created a new field called bioinformatics -- and Penn State has already positioned itself to handle the task.
Penn State Live 2010
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