The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology

From the late 1980s onward, the term “bioinformatics” mostly has been used to refer to computational methods for comparative analysis of genome data. However, the term was originally more widely defined as the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. In this essay, I will trace this early hi...

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Autor principal: Hogeweg, Paulien
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002021
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description From the late 1980s onward, the term “bioinformatics” mostly has been used to refer to computational methods for comparative analysis of genome data. However, the term was originally more widely defined as the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. In this essay, I will trace this early history (from a personal point of view) and I will argue that the original meaning of the term is re-emerging.
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spelling pubmed-30689252011-04-11 The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology Hogeweg, Paulien PLoS Comput Biol Perspective From the late 1980s onward, the term “bioinformatics” mostly has been used to refer to computational methods for comparative analysis of genome data. However, the term was originally more widely defined as the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. In this essay, I will trace this early history (from a personal point of view) and I will argue that the original meaning of the term is re-emerging. Public Library of Science 2011-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3068925/ /pubmed/21483479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002021 Text en Paulien Hogeweg. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068925/
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