Bioinformatics Jobs Computational Biology Genomics » Bioinformatics General Knowledge http://bioinformaticsdirectory.com Bioinformatics Jobs Computational Biology Genomics Sat, 12 May 2012 18:17:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 General Types of “Informatics” techniques in Bioinformatics http://bioinformaticsdirectory.com/general-types-of-%e2%80%9cinformatics%e2%80%9d-techniques-in-bioinformatics/ http://bioinformaticsdirectory.com/general-types-of-%e2%80%9cinformatics%e2%80%9d-techniques-in-bioinformatics/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:20:21 +0000 Bioinformatics Computational Biology http://bioinformaticsdirectory.com/?p=182

Databases

  • Building, Querying
  • Object DB
  • Text String Comparison Text Search
  • 1D Alignment

Significance Statistics

  • Alta Vista, grep

Finding Patterns

  • AI / Machine Learning
  • Clustering
  • Datamining

Geometry

  • Robotics
  • Graphics (Surfaces, Volumes)
  • Comparison and 3D Matching
    ( Visision , recognition)

Physical Simulation

  • Newtonian Mechanics
  • Electrostatics
  • Numerical Algorithms
  • Simulation


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To the patient:
Better drug, better treatment

To the pharma :
Save time, save cost, make more $

To the scientist:
Better science

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Computer programming (including text processing–PERL, and regular computation–C, C++, Java)

Databases

Probability and statistics

Molecular biology and/or physiology

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The main funding sources have been National Institute of Health (via National Library of Medicine and National Center for Human Genome Research), National Science Foundation (especially Biological Information Resources and Computational Database Activity programs), Department of Energy (through Genome projects), as well as some foundations (Burroughs-Welcome, Keck Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Culpeper Foundation). Some pharmaceutical and biotech companies have grant programs as well.

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