Yoon Changhan
Bioinformatics 1st semester 2015
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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
Definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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).
Transcriptomics
Definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptomics#Applications
Transcriptomics is a study that analyses, seeks understanding, and models the whole life by utilizing transcriptome.
What is transcriptome?
Proteomics
Epigenomics
Definition
Canceromics and Geromics
Definition