The Systems of Bioinformatics
Why Should I Care?
Bioinformatics is a revolutionary new way to document and map the human genome into easy to use databases. Countries from all over the world have agreed to come together with their collective data in an effort to create an easy to use system of bio diagnostics. Every kind of research that is done to learn more about types of diseases and how they affect or originate, is made possible because of bioinformatics. From applications like Proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, to Epigenetics, the study of heritable change in species, Bioinformatics really is the driving force behind medical research. The future of biomedical research and engineering lays within Bioinformatics, and constant developments in the field will be accompanied by exceptional improvement in the way that pharmesuetical companies improve our well-being.
Suppose that you have a member of your family that has lived with Diabetes their entire life. Looking up a vast amount of information on their unfortunate disease would take little to no time at all with services such as the NCBI Map Viewer. You can explore any characteristic, structural sequence, or see what other diseases your relative would be especially suspectible to.
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Without a future in Bioinformatics, there will be no future in any form of progress in modernized medicine. Personalized medicine is a huge thing that has come out of being able to compare one persons genetic make up to another. This kind of medicine allows the treatment of more distinctive peoples for very complex and intricate diseases.
Things to Consider...
-Bioinformatics speeds up forensic investigations by locating SNPs, or Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, and comparing the SNPs found in blood from a crime scene to that of a suspect.
-Bioinformatics uses mathematics, analytics, and computer engineering to perfect biological databases.
-Majority of freeware in the field was distributed in the early 90s.
-Bioinformatics is applied to at least five major types of activities: data acquisition, database development, data analysis, data integration, and analysis of integrated data.
Global Databases
Help Everyone
From researchers to parents who are concerned with a deficiency that their child has, databases like NCBI or EBI can be very useful tools in looking at specific genomes and the information that accompanies them. Along with being useful, these websites are federally funded by nations from around the world and are as credible as any other government run databases. By clicking on the "view more" button below, you can also take a look at grants and funding that the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will give to a researcher or facility.
History
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Ever since Charles Darwin recorded his findings on the different types of finches on the Galapagos islands, breakthroughs in Bioinformatics have been popping up rapidly. Click below for a timeline of events.
Goals
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In a combined global effort, countries from around the world have worked on mapping human genes and other biological units for the good of man kind.
Approach
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The field of Bioinformatics ranges widely from providing research, software creation and coding oppurtunities for the human genome virtually everywhere.
Innovators
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This website was created to inform you on what bioinformatics exactly is and how it works. In esscence, it is analysis of genomic sequences through applying informatics techniques. This field of science uses things such as computational methods of coding, database design, and data mining as a means of understanding the wonders of the human body on a different, more recognizable scale (1). This type of data collection drives a community of scientists to bring together similar macromolecular proteins and genes that will hopefully be found to be linked to other types of units of life in the body. The best thing is that companies like NCBI and EBI already have a massive amount of backbone in funding for their research, and this makes the resources that they use available to anyone with a need for reliable information as long as they have an active internet connection.