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【 原文由 DFT 所发表 】
What Is Bioinformatics?
Biological data is proliferating rapidly. Public databases such as Gen
Bank and the Protein Data Bank have been growing exponentially for som
e time now. With the advent of the World Wide Web and fast Internet co
nnections, the data contained in these databases and a great many spec
ial-purpose programs can be accessed quickly, easily, and cheaply from
any location in the world. As a consequence, computer-based tools now
play an increasingly critical role in the advancement of biological r
esearch.
Bioinformatics, a rapidly evolving discipline, is the application of c
omputational tools and techniques to the management and analysis of bi
ological data. The term bioinformatics is relatively new, and as defin
ed here, it encroaches on such terms as "computational biology" and ot
hers. The use of computers in biology research predates the term bioin
formatics by many years. For example, the determination of 3D protein
structure from X-ray crystallographic data has long relied on computer
analysis. In this book I refer to the use of computers in biological
research as bioinformatics. It's important to be aware, however, that
others may make different distinctions between the terms. In particula
r, bioinformatics is often the term used when referring to the data an
d the techniques used in large-scale sequencing and analysis of entire
genomes, such as C. elegans, Arabidopsis, and Homo sapiens.
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