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Review
. 2002 Apr 27;324(7344):1018-22.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1018.

Science, medicine, and the future: Bioinformatics

Ardeshir Bayat  1
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Review

Science, medicine, and the future: Bioinformatics

Ardeshir Bayat. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Interaction of disciplines that have contributed to the formation of bioinformatics
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Figure 2
Ensembl website: a genomic data search facility freely available on the internet. Ensembl is a joint project between the European Bioinformatic Institute and the Sanger Centre, which is capable of automatically tracking the sequenced pieces of the human genome and assembling and analysing them to identify genes and other features of interest to biomedical researchers
Figure 3
Figure 3
Web page illustrating freely available BLAST services run by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available DNA sequence databases
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Figure 4
Schematic diagram representing complexity of genomic data processing. Analysis and interpretation of biological data considers information at every level from the genome (total genetic content) to the proteome (total protein content) and transcriptome (total messenger RNA content) of the cell. The images numbered I-IV to the right of the diagram represent relevant examples of DNA (image I is base pair nucleotides); RNA (image II is a microarray showing levels of gene expression); and protein (image III is a structure of a single protein; image IV is a two dimensional gel electrophoresis showing separation of all proteins of a cell—each spot corresponds to a different protein chain)
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