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BookmarkBioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.
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Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology.
Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution..
For more information about the topic Bioinformatics, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Molecular biology — Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Bioinformatics at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
