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- See also changes related to Bioinformatics, or pages that link to Bioinformatics or to this page or whose text contains "Bioinformatics".
Parent topics
- Computer science [r]: The study of how computers work, and the algorithms, data structures and design principles used in their operation and programming. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
Subtopics
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool [r]: Bioinformatics algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences. [e]
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. [e]
- Mathematical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by mathematical means. [e]
- Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the range of life forms in a given ecosystem. [e]
- Bioengineering [r]: The application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical, nuclear and other engineering principles to understand, modify and control biological (plants and animals - including human) systems. [e]
- Biology's next microscope: Mathematics [r]: A scientific discussion about the mutual interaction between mathematics and biology. [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. [e]
- Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. [e]
- DNA [r]: A macromolecule — chemically, a nucleic acid — that stores genetic information. [e]
- Drug discovery [r]: Process by which pharmaceuticals are discovered and/or designed. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Horizontal gene transfer [r]: Transfer of genetic material to a being other than one of the donor's offspring. [e]
- Hubmed [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medical informatics [r]: Science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to aspects of health care and medicine. [e]
- National Library of Medicine [r]: The world's largest medical library, based in Bethesda, Maryland. [e]
- Single-nucleotide polymorphism [r]: A DNA sequence variation across chromosomes within an individual or a species, involving only a single base change. [e]
- Systems biology [r]: Add brief definition or description