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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Core

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. bioinformatics
  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. bioinformatics

Preferred term

bioinformatics

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories applicable to molecular biology and areas of computer-based techniques for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.

    Source: Medical Subject Headings 2012

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • computational biology
  • computational genetics
  • computational molecular biology

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/17402

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