Concept information
Preferred term
bioinformatics
Type
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Topic
Definition
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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
Narrower concepts
Synonyms
- computational biology
- computational genetics
- computational molecular biology
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/17402
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