Bioinformatics or Computational Biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution. The terms bioinformatics and computa ...

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Bioinformatics - Major research areas
Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis Bioinformatics - Computational evolutionary biology Bioinformatics - Measuring biodiversity Bioinformatics - Gene expression analysis Bioinformatics - Regulation analysis Bioinformatics - Protein expression analysis Bioinformatics - Analysis of mutations in cancer Bioinformatics - Structure prediction Bioinformatics - Modeling biological systems Bioinformatics - High-throughput image analysis
Bioinformatics - Software tools
Bioinformatics - Related fields
Bioinformatics - Notes & references Bioinformatics - Bibliography

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Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics - Major research areas, Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis, Bioinformatics - Computational evolutionary biology, Bioinformatics - Measuring biodiversity, Bioinformatics - Gene expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Regulation analysis, Bioinformatics - Protein expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Analysis of mutations in cancer, Bioinformatics - Structure prediction, Bioinformatics - Comparative genomics, Bioinformatics - Modeling biological systems, Bioinformatics - High-throughput image analysis, Bioinformatics - Software tools, Bioinformatics - Related fields, Bioinformatics - Notes & references, Bioinformatics - Bibliography

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Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis. Main articles: Sequence alignment, Sequence database Since the Phage Φ-X174 was sequenced in 1977, the DNA sequences of more and more organisms have been decoded and stored in electronic databases. This data is analyzed to determine genes that code for proteins, as well as regulatory sequences. A comparison of genes within a species or between different species can show similarities between protein functions, or relations between species (the use of molecular sys ...

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Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics - Major research areas, Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis, Bioinformatics - Computational evolutionary biology, Bioinformatics - Measuring biodiversity, Bioinformatics - Gene expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Regulation analysis, Bioinformatics - Protein expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Analysis of mutations in cancer, Bioinformatics - Structure prediction, Bioinformatics - Comparative genomics, Bioinformatics - Modeling biological systems, Bioinformatics - High-throughput image analysis, Bioinformatics - Software tools, Bioinformatics - Related fields, Bioinformatics - Notes & references, Bioinformatics - Bibliography

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Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis. Main articles: Sequence alignment, Sequence database Since the Phage Φ-X174; was sequenced in 1977, the DNA sequences of more and more organisms have been decoded and stored in electronic databases. This data is analyzed to determine genes that code for proteins, as well as regulatory sequences. A comparison of genes within a species or between different species can show similarities between protein functions, or relations between species (the use of molecular sy ...

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Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics - Major research areas, Bioinformatics - Sequence analysis, Bioinformatics - Computational evolutionary biology, Bioinformatics - Measuring biodiversity, Bioinformatics - Gene expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Regulation analysis, Bioinformatics - Protein expression analysis, Bioinformatics - Analysis of mutations in cancer, Bioinformatics - Structure prediction, Bioinformatics - Modeling biological systems, Bioinformatics - High-throughput image analysis, Bioinformatics - Software tools, Bioinformatics - Related fields, Bioinformatics - Notes & references, Bioinformatics - Bibliography

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In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: phylon = tribe, race and genetikos = relative to birth, from genesis = birth) is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations). Phylogenetics, also known as phylogenetic systematics, treats a species as a group of lineage-connected individuals over time. Phylogenetic taxonomy, which is an offshoot of, but not a logical consequence of, phylogenetic systematics, constitutes a means of classifying groups of organi ...

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Cheminformatics is the use of computer and informational techniques, applied to a range of problems in the field of chemistry. Also known as chemoinformatics and chemical informatics, these techniques are used in pharmaceutical companies in the process of Drug Discovery. Cheminformatics - Basics. Cheminformatics combines the scientific working fields of Chemistry and Computer science especially in the area of chemical Graph theory (Bonchev/Rouvray, 1990) and mining the chemical space. I ...

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Cheminformatics - Basics Cheminformatics - Applications
Cheminformatics - Screening Cheminformatics - Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship QSAR Cheminformatics - File formats Cheminformatics - Miscellaneous

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Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. There are a number of definitions and measures of biodiversity. Biodiversity - Etymology. Biodiversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. The term biological diversity was coined by Thomas Lovejoy in 1980, while the word biodiversity itself was coined by the entomologist E. O. Wilson in 1986, in a report for the first American Forum on biological diversity organized b ...

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Biodiversity - Etymology Biodiversity - Biodiversity definitions Biodiversity - Origin of life and biodiversity evolution Biodiversity - Benefits of biodiversity
Biodiversity - Ecological role of biodiversity Biodiversity - Economic role of biodiversity Biodiversity - Ethical role of biodiversity Biodiversity - Scientific role of biodiversity
Biodiversity - Evaluation of biodiversity
Biodiversity - Measurement of biodiversity Biodiversity - Biodiversity: time and space Biodiversity - Species inventory Biodiversity - Hotspots of biodiversity
Biodiversity - Threats to biodiversity Biodiversity - Biodiversity management: conservation preservation and protection Biodiversity - Juridical status of biological diversity Biodiversity - Biodiversity and size bias
Biodiversity - Quotes from Sean Nee
Biodiversity - Measures of biodiversity

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Harvester collects information from protein and gene databases along with information from so called "prediction servers". Prediction server e.g provide online sequence analysis for a single protein. Harvesters search index is based on the Uniprot protein information collection. The Uniprot collections consists of ~72.000 human (2005-08) ~48.000 mouse and ~15.000 rat protein information pages which are curated and updated on ...

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Bioinformatic Harvester, Bioinformatic Harvester - How does Harvester work?, Bioinformatic Harvester - What can i find?, Bioinformatic Harvester - How to link your project or excel-sheet to the Bioinformatic Harvester

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In genetics, a sequence motif is a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance. An example is the N-glycosylation site motif: Asn, followed by anything but Pro, followed by either Ser or Thr, followed by anything but Pro where the three-letter abbreviations are the conventional designations for amino acids (see genetic code). Sequence motif - Overview. When a sequence motif appears ...

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Sequence motif - Overview Sequence motif - Motif bioinformatics
Sequence motif - Motifs and consensus sequences Sequence motif - Software Sequence motif - Discovery through evolutionary conservation Sequence motif - Pattern description notations Sequence motif - Another scheme

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Biomedical informatics is a discipline related to Bioinformatics and has its roots in medical informatics or healthcare informatics. It studies the use of information technology and advanced research computing in the practice of biomedical sciences and medicine. The major areas encompassed by it are clinical Informatics, dental informatics, nursing informatics, veterinary informatics, pharmacy informatics, medical imaging informatics, pub ...

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Alignment is the adjustment of an object in relation with other objects. It has a more specific meaning in some disciplines: Typographic alignment: In typesetting, lines of text or images can be aligned left, right, centered or justified. Biology: Sequence alignment shows similarities between protein or nucleic acid sequences (also in bioinformatics). Structural alignment presents similarities in 3D structure of protein molecules. Alignment (role-playin

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Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains. Such applications include numerical analysis, mathematical physics, mathematics of engineering, linear programming, optimization and operations research, continuous modelling, mathematical biology and bioinformatics, information theory, game theory, probability and statistics, mathematical economics, financial mathematics, actuarial science, cryptography and hence combinatorics and even finite geometry to some extent, graph theory as applied to network anal ...

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Data clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis and bioinformatics. Clustering is the classification of similar objects into different groups, or more precisely, the partitioning of a data set into subsets (clusters), so that the data in each subset (ideally) share some common trait - often proximity according to some defined distance measure. Machine learning typically regar ...

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Data clustering - Types of clustering Data clustering - Hierarchical clustering
Data clustering - Introduction Data clustering - Agglomerative hierarchical clustering
Data clustering - Partitional clustering
Data clustering - k-means and derivatives
Data clustering - The elbow criterion Data clustering - Spectral clustering Data clustering - Applications
Data clustering - Biology Data clustering - Marketing research Data clustering - Other applications
Data clustering - Comparisons between data clusterings Data clustering - Bibliography Data clustering - Software implementations
Data clustering - Free Data clustering - Non-free

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Harvester allows both combination of different search terms and single words. Search Examples: Gene-name: "golga3" Gene-alias: "ADAP-S ADAS ADHAPS ADPS" (one gen name is sufficient) Gene-Ontologies: "Enzyme linked receptor protein signaling pathway" Unigene-Cluster: "Hs.449360" Go-annotation: "intra-Golgi transport" Molecular function: "protein kinase binding" Protein: "Q9NPD3" Protein domain: "SH2 sar" Protein Localisation: "endoplasmic re ...

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Bioinformatic Harvester, Bioinformatic Harvester - How does Harvester work?, Bioinformatic Harvester - What can i find?, Bioinformatic Harvester - How to link your project or excel-sheet to the Bioinformatic Harvester

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Definition and meaning of bioinformatics:

bioinformatics - the analysis of biological information using computers and statistical techniques; the science of developing and utilizing computer databases and algorithms to accelerate and enhance biological research. Bioinformatics is particularly important as an adjunct to genomics research, because of the large volume of complex data generated

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Blat is a term which appeared in the Soviet Union to denote the use of informal agreements, Party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead. The adverbial usage of the word is po blatu, meaning "by blat". Because, in the Soviet Union, the Gosplan wasn't able to calculate efficient or even feasible plans, enterprises often had to rely on people with connections, who could then use blat to help fulfill the quotas. Eventually most enterprises came to have a supply expediter - a < ...

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Blat, Blat - Soviet Union, Blat - Command-line Emailer, Blat - Bioinformatics Software

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Biopunk is a sub-genre of science fiction which uses elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose. It describes the nihilistic, underground side of the biotech society which started to evolve in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Unlike cyberpunk, it builds not on informational technology but on biology. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic engineering. One of the prominent writers in this field is Paul Di Filippo, though he called his collection of such stories ribofunk, with the first element being taken f ...

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Biopunk, Biopunk - Science fiction, Biopunk - Proto-movement

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Unlike the historical method of drug discovery, by trial-and-error testing of chemical substances on animals, and matching the apparent effects to treatments, rational drug design begins with a knowledge of specific chemical responses in the body, and tailoring combinations of these to fit a treatment profile. An important case study in rational drug design is imatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor designed specifically for the bcr-abl fusion protein that is characteristic for Philadelphia chromosome-positive leuke ...

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Drug design, Drug design - Examples of designed drugs, Drug design - Rational drug design

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Sequence data is just that a list of bases found in a given stretch of DNA, its value lies in the application of this information in the discoveries and new technologies it allows. In Dr. Lander's case the application was the study of disease he is the founder director of the Broad Institute this is a collaboration between MIT, Harvard, the Whitehead institute and affiliated hospitals its goal is "to create tools for genome medicine and make them broadly available to the scientific community; to apply these tools to propel the understanding ...

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Eric Lander, Eric Lander - Contributions to genomics, Eric Lander - Beyond genomics, Eric Lander - Summary

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Medical informatics began in the 1950s with the rise of useable computation devices, computers. Early names for medical informatics included medical computing, medical computer science, computer medicine, medical electronic data processing, medical automatic data processing, medical information processing, medical information science, medical software engineering and medical computer technology. The earliest ...

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Veterinary informatics, Veterinary informatics - Aspects of the field, Veterinary informatics - History

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