Definition of "bioinformatics" []

• The use of computer science, mathematics, and information theory to model and analyze biological systems, especially systems involving genetic material. (noun)

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• "Ingénieur Bioinformaticienne is written by "Evelyne, is a research engineer in bioinformatics and has been actively writing for the last year on her career.""
• "In the seventies we coined the term bioinformatics for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems."
• "For their part, contestants are constrained to so-called bioinformatics activities, designing DNA sequences from genomic-related information in a browser-based programming environment provided by SciNeS (Fig. 1)."