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Bioinformatics is a discipline that uses computational and mathematical techniques to store, manage, and analyze biological data in order to answer biological questions. Bioinformatics has over 850 databases [154] and numerous tools that work over those databases and local data to produce even more data themselves. In order to perform an analysis, a bioinformatician uses one or more of these resources to gather, filter, and transform data to answer a question. Thus, bioinformatics is an in silico science.
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Oinn, T. et al. (2007). Taverna/myGrid: Aligning a Workflow System with the Life Sciences Community. In: Taylor, I.J., Deelman, E., Gannon, D.B., Shields, M. (eds) Workflows for e-Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-757-2_19
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