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rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: What is Bioinformatics?">What is Bioinformatics?</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">May 8th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/mkhalfan/" title="Posts by Mohammed Khalfan ">Mohammed Khalfan</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/bioinformatics/">Bioinformatics</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/05/08/what-is-bioinformatics/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p>Bioinformatics is a relatively new field and as such, many people aren’t exactly sure what “bioinformatics” really is.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.bisti.nih.gov/index.asp">NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative</a> defines bioinformatics as:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Research, development, or application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral or health data, including those to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such data.”</p> <p>Still confused? Don’t fret, most people are when they hear that definition. I usually like to tell people:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Bioinformatics combines the latest technology with biological research.”</p> <p>Over the past decade or so, and even prior, computers have become an integral part of every industry. 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IQ tests are overated. They are based on assumptions about the nature of intelligence,...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Cancer Overtreatment. When the solution is worse than the problem." class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/13/cancer-overtreatment-when-the-solution-is-worse-than-the-problem/#comment-5439"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=32' class='avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">points of view: <span class="details"> On My Twitter Feed... Then I checked my personal feed and saw somebody posting the link to the...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Tag…You’re It!" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/01/19/tag-youre-it/#comment-5359"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> the wonders of science i wanna be performing this epigenetic tag therapy.</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Merry Christmas to Hemophilia Patients" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/15/merry-christmas-to-hemophilia-patients/#comment-5358"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> this is just a tip of an iceberg whats gonna happen more and more can only be expected from gene...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: DNA DAY 2010: What, me worry about my DNA?" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/04/29/dna-day-2010-what-me-worry-about-my-dna/#comment-4616"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/fe0f32261332c54b99b24c06881c2573?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Traci: <span class="details"> How would I go about getting my DNA tested? Being an adopted child, we have exhausted legal alleys...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: AIDS Cure UPDATE" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/15/aids-cure-update/#comment-1607"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/997a441b2802e625590c2adc4ea2545f?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Heaven: <span class="details"> This is really amazing. This is just another step to curing some of the most devastating diseases...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Compulsive Hoarding" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/10/compulsive-hoarding/#comment-1245"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cf95176c58575d503b402764e9710135?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Eileen @ Space Matters: <span class="details"> You've got some very interesting info here! 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