BIOINFORMATICS

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is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.

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Bioinformatics

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In this year, The term “bioinformatics” emerged to describe the application of computational techniques to biological data. Initial efforts focused on basic sequence analysis and evolutionary studies.

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1960s-1970s:

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in this year, The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies revolutionized genomics by enabling rapid and cost-effective sequencing.

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2000s

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In this year, With the integration of various biological data types and the rise of big data in biology, machine learning and artificial intelligence have become vital tools in bioinformatics.

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2010s-present

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BLAST stands for

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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

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is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA and/or RNA sequences.

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BLAST (basic local alignment search tool)