bioinformatics
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Definition of bioinformatics
: the collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers especially as applied to molecular genetics and genomics
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bioinformatic
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bioinformatics
noun plural but singular in construction
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Medical Definition of bioinformatics
: the collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers especially as applied in molecular genetics and genomics
One of the most basic operations in bioinformatics involves searching for similarities, or homologies, between a newly sequenced piece of DNA segments from various organisms.— Ken Howard, Scientific American, July 2000
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bioinformatic
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bioinformatic analysis
bioinformatician
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… hands off mounds of data to a bioinformatician who can correlate genetic differences with health problems, with the help of high-powered computing.
— Stephen T. Watson and Fred O. Williams, The Buffalo (New York) News, 19 June 2005
bioinformaticist
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Others will be bioinformaticists, combining skills in biology and information technology to help gather and analyze data related to genetic mapping.
— Jeffry Steele, The Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2007