Yoon Changhan

Bioinformatics 1st semester 2015

 

 

 

Contents

Principles of Bioinformatics

What is Biology?

What is Bioinformatics? 

 

 Bioinformatics is biology.

 Biology is a study to aim 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.

 The technical definition:

Bioinformatics is a discipline of science that analyses, seeks understanding and models the whole life as an information processing phenomenon utilizing energy with methods from philosophy, mathmatics and computer science using measurable biological experimental data.

 

Bioprogramming

http://biolecture.org/index.php/Bioprogramming

 Definition

 Bioprogramming is all the programming activities for analyzing biological data.

 

Genomics

 Genomics is a discipline in genetics that applies recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods, and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble, and analyze the function and structure of genomes (the complete set of DNA within a single cell of an organism).