The exponential growth in molecular sequence data started in the early 1980s when methods for DNA sequencing became widely available. The data were accumulated in databases such as GenBank, EMBL ...

The concept of a bioinformatic framework is exemplified by sequence databases. DNA sequences provide a one-dimensional framework to which additional information concerning structure and function can ...

Historical introduction and overview -- Collecting and storing sequences in the laboratory -- Alignment of pairs of sequences -- Introduction to probability and statistical analysis of sequence ...

We are living in an era where biology has become synonymous with big data due to the ever-increasing amount of data being generated by technologies such as next-generation sequencing. Bioinformatics ...

Mark Ragan is Professor and Head of Genomics and Computational Biology at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical ...

The "Bioinformatics Markets for Next-Generation Sequencing" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. This report examines the important contribution made by information technology to ...

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