Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... Let’s consider one of the most rapidly developing branches of scientific knowledge, namely bioinformatics. Like many other interdisciplinary fields, it is pretty hard to precisely define it. For the purposes of this review, we understand the term bioinformatics as the use of information technology for the analysis of biological data. Figures in biology: from Mendel's peas to personal genomes Information technology ceased to be only the realm of programmers and mathematicians and help expand the scope of biological problems that could be solved by computers. Historically, biology developed as ...