Bioinformatics is the science of managing
and analysing biological information. Whereas all branches of modern biology
make some use of computers, molecular biology and especially genetic
engineering could not even exist without them. Given a certain research and
computer infrastructure, developing countries may have relatively easy access
to the products of bioinformatics. However, their future use of this technology
hinges on the availability of bioinformatics knowledge in the public domain.
Some of the underlying tools for this
progress are provided by bioinformatics, which is a collective name used for
computer approaches in fields such as molecular biology, biotechnology,
medicine and agriculture. In the words of leading biologist Lee Hood, “Biotechnology is
the industrial use of biological information”.
The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) has called bioinformatics a ‘mega science’, that
is, a strategic discipline that forms the background of the entire biomedical
field. This is because, firstly, bioinformatics is
universally applicable to molecular biology, and, secondly, bioinformatics
has successfully integrated experimental and bibliographic databanks, thereby
producing an exemplary scientific infrastructure which is equally applicable to
biomedical and to agricultural research. For these two main reasons bioinformatics
can be considered a switchboard between the various scientific fields since it
allows easy translation and application of findings from one technical area
into another.
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