Bioinformatics

Wojciech Makalowski, Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Published online: September 2005

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005247

Bioinformatics may be defined as the development and/or application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological data, including those to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze or visualize such data.

Keywords: bioinformatics; biological database; sequence analysis; protein analysis; sequence assembly; gene prediction; homology search

Figure 1. Growth of biological information measured by number of entries in two major databases: GenBank – a collection of annotated nucleotide sequences and MEDLINE – a collection of biomedical literature.
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 Further Reading
    book Branden C-I and Tooze J (1999) Introduction to Protein Structure. New York: Garland Publishing.
    book Mount DW (2001) Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis. Plainview, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
 Web Links
    ePath Bioinformatics Curriculum. This document provides recommendations for undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in bioinformatics developed by a group of Canadian scientists http://www.bioinformatics.ca/docs/whitepaper.pdf

Related Sub-Topics:

Bioinformatics | Techniques and Tools in Clinical Genetics | Bioinformatics and Genetic Disease | DNA Structure and Function | Techniques and Tools in Molecular Biology | Computational Molecular Biology
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Makalowski, Wojciech(Sep 2005) Bioinformatics. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0005247]