Practical Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

“…This raises new areas for research, and collaboration with other fields, specifically computer science, information science, statistics (Ewens & Grant, 20011, and mathematics. Additional questions concern how to make retrieval results more intelligible to biologists (for example, using visualization and data mining). As bioinformatics has matured, two distinct work practices (derived from biology and from information technology) have emerged to support collaboration on specific biological questions, such as drug discovery (Dougherty & Projan, 2003;Gatto, 2003;Hillisch & Hilgenfeld, 20031, pharmaceutics (Fagan & Swindells, 2000), pharmacogenomics (Jain, 2003;Kalow, Meyer & Tyndale, 2001), neurosurgery (Taylor, Mainprize, & Rutka, 2003), and medical practice (Brzeski, 2002;Grant, Moshyk, Kuskniruk, & Moehr, 2003).…”