Bioinformatics
"Bioinformatics: the science of informatics as applied to biological research. Informatics is the management and analysis of data using advanced computing techniques. Bioinformatics is particularly important as an adjunct to genomics research, because of the large amount of complex data this research generates." (Food Standards Agency, 2002).
Literature:
Food Standards Agency (2002). Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics: Glossary of Terms. http://www.food.gov.uk/science/ouradvisors/toxicity/cotmeets/49737/49750/49831
Wikipedia. The Free encyclopedia. (2006). Bioinformatics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
See also: Informatics;
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 26-03-2006