Abstract
Bioinformatics is a discipline that uses computational and mathematical techniques to store, manage, and analyze biological data in order to answer biological questions. Bioinformatics has over 850 databases [154] and numerous tools that work over those databases and local data to produce even more data themselves. In order to perform an analysis, a bioinformatician uses one or more of these resources to gather, filter, and transform data to answer a question. Thus, bioinformatics is an in silico science. © 2007 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids|Workflows for e-Science: Sci. Workflows for Grids |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 300-319 |
Number of pages | 19 |
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Publication status | Published - 2007 |