Computational biology

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Computational biology is a field of active research that studies problems in biology that need algorithms or statistics.[1][2]

Many people who work in computational biology are trained in biology, biophysics, bioinformatics, engineering, physics, statistics, or chemistry.

Computational Biology Media

  • This timeline displays the year-by-year progress of the Human Genome Project in the context of genetics since 1865. Starting in 1990, by 1999, Chromosome 22 became the first human chromosome to be completely sequenced.

  • A partially sequenced genome

  • A heat-map of the Jaccard distances of nuclear profiles

  • Diagram showing a simple random forest

References

  1. ↑ NIH working definition of bioinformatics and computational biology". Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative. 17 July 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2012. [1] Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Center for Computational Molecular Biology. Retrieved 18 August 2012. [2]


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