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Biological database design, development, and long-term management is a core area of the discipline of bioinformatics. [3] Data contents include gene sequences, textual descriptions, attributes and ontology classifications, citations, and tabular data.
Bioinformatics uses biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, data science, computer programming, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret biological data. The process of analyzing and interpreting data can sometimes be referred to as computational biology , however this distinction between the two terms ...
The journal Nucleic Acids Research regularly publishes special issues on biological databases and has a list of such databases. The 2018 issue has a list of about 180 such databases and updates to previously described databases. [2] Omics Discovery Index can be used to browse and search several biological databases.
Bioinformatics and computational biology are interdisciplinary fields of research, development and application of algorithms, computational and statistical methods for management and analysis of biological data, and for solving basic biological problems.
Structural bioinformatics is the branch of bioinformatics that is related to the analysis and prediction of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules such as proteins, RNA, and DNA. It deals with generalizations about macromolecular 3D structures such as comparisons of overall folds and local motifs, principles of molecular ...
The extensible NEXUS file format is widely used in phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics.It stores information about taxa, morphological character states, DNA and protein sequence alignments, distances, and phylogenetic trees. [1]
The concept of biological computation proposes that living organisms perform computations, and that as such, abstract ideas of information and computation may be key to understanding biology.
In the past few decades, leaps in genomic research have led to massive amounts of biological data. As a result, bioinformatics was created as the convergence of genomics, biotechnology, and information technology, while concentrating on biological data. Biological data has also been difficult to define, as bioinformatics is a wide-encompassing ...