The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology

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Journal PLoS Comput Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2011 Apr 13

PMID 21483479

Citations 47

Authors

Paulien Hogeweg

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Abstract

From the late 1980s onward, the term "bioinformatics" mostly has been used to refer to computational methods for comparative analysis of genome data. However, the term was originally more widely defined as the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. In this essay, I will trace this early history (from a personal point of view) and I will argue that the original meaning of the term is re-emerging.

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