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Definition of Bioinformatics

Revision as of 17:24, 6 May 2015 by imported>S

 Jong’s definition

 

Bioinformatics is biology.

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Why


Biology is aims to understand what life is. The essence of life is information processing.


Therefore, bioinformatics, the study of life forms using informatics methods is the key of life science.




 


Technical definition of bioinformatics

 

 

Bioinformatics is a discipline of science that analyses, seeks understandinand models the whole life  


as an information processing phoenomenon


utilizing energy with methods from philosophy, mathematics and computer science 


using measurable biological experimental data.