Bioinformatics

The term Bioinformatics first appeared in 1970s and exploded in the 1990s with the Human Genome Project and the rise of high-throughput sequencing technologies. Earlier roots include computational tools for analyzing molecular data developed in the 1960s, with methodological precedents in wartime cryptanalytic work from the 1940s.

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Bioinformatics sits at the intersection of biology, computer science, mathematics/statistics, engineering, and biochemistry.
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