bioinformatics

The definition of bioinformatics is the use of computers to collect and analyze biological information, especially for the field of genetics and genomics.

(noun)

An example of bioinformatics is the use of computer analysis on the Human Genome Project, which has recorded the three billion basic pairs of the human DNA system.

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noun (used with a sing. verb)
The use of computer science, mathematics, and information theory to model and analyze biological systems, especially systems involving genetic material.

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