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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics What is bioinformatics?Bioinformatics applies computer science and mathematics to biological data — most centrally, DNA and protein sequences — to store, search, compare, and interpret them at a scale far beyond what could be done by hand.DNA as a sequence a computer can work withDNA is made of a sequence of four building blocks, represented by the letters A, T, C, and G. This is exactly the kind of structure computer science already has powerful tools for: DNA can be treated as a long string of characters, and the string-searching and comparison techniques covered in the computer science article apply directly to it.…

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