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What is Bioinformatics?
A Proposed Definition and Overview of the Field
N. M. Luscombe, D. Greenbaum, M. Gerstein
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University, New Haven, USA
Summary 1. Introduction related to this new field has been surging,
and now comprise almost 2% of the
Background: The recent flood of data from genome annual total of papers in PubMed.
sequences and functional genomics has given rise to
Biological data are being produced at a This unexpected union between the two
new field, bioinformatics, which combines elements
of biology and co