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. 2021 Mar 18;19(3):e3001165.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001165. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Is "bioinformatics" dead?

Philip E Bourne  1
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Is "bioinformatics" dead?

Philip E Bourne. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

Why would a computational biologist with 40 years of research experience say bioinformatics is dead? The short answer is, in being the Founding Dean of a new School of Data Science, what we do suddenly looks different.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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