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<p><span style="font-size: x-large"><b>The short definition of bioinformatics is:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large"><b>Bioinformatics is biology. </b></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: medium">Why? </span></b><span style="font-size: medium">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. </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: large">Technical definition of bioinformatcis:</span></b></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; text-align: left; margin-left: 0.42in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-indent: -0.42in; language: ko; punctuation-wrap: hanging; -ms-word-break: keep-all"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: black; language: en-US">Bioinformatics is a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">discipline of science</span><span style="color: black; language: en-US"> that analyses, seeks understanding and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red; language: en-US">models</span><span style="color: black; language: en-US"> the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">whole </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red; language: en-US">life</span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;as </span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">an </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red; language: en-US">information</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US"> processing </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">phoenomenon</span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">&nbsp;utilizing </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red; language: en-US">energy&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: black; language: en-US">with </span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">methods from </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">philosophy, mathematics and computer science </span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">using </span><span style="color: rgb(89,89,89); language: en-US">measurable </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">biological </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; language: en-US">experimental data.</span><span style="color: black; language: en-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>
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<p>[[Bioinformatics course]]</p>
<p>[[UNIST Bioinformatics course]]</p>
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