http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/21/definition_of_bioinformatics_at_nih Comments for "definition of bioinformatics at NIH" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/21/definition_of_bioinformatics_at_nih <p>The NIH has published, in 2000, a definition of bioinformatics which is supposed to be the 'official' one:<br /> - <a href="http://www.bisti.nih.gov/CompuBioDef.pdf" title="http://www.bisti.nih.gov/CompuBioDef.pdf">http://www.bisti.nih.gov/CompuBioDef.pdf</a></p> <p>I partly disagree with that!! Or at least, I think it is incomplete.</p> <p>Bioinformatics is not only providing services and tools for scientists and for analyzing data.<br /> It is also a scientific discipline, in which you make an hypothesis, you write down your assumptions, you manage to find a way to demonstrate it, and then you share your results with other scientists and confront with them.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/21/definition_of_bioinformatics_at_nih">read more</a></p> http://www.nodalpoint.org/2008/07/21/definition_of_bioinformatics_at_nih#comments Bioinformatics Bioinformatics bioinformatics definition nih Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:05:17 -0400 dalloliogm 2362 at http://www.nodalpoint.org