bioinformatics

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Bioinformatics is essentially the collection, storage, manipulation, analysis and modelling of biological data. It is inextricably intertwined with computational biology, which broadly speaking is the application of computer science or mathematical techniques and algorithms to biological problems. Often in the past the terms have been used interchangeably, but as the field of computational biology has grown 'bioinformatics' has tended to become reserved for its more specific meaning.