bioinformatics

Content: Laura, that's an awesome song! Ashutosh: your animations are pretty cool too, though I was unable to open the last one.

Bioinformatics was the focus in this week lectures.  I really respect people who study/research this area, because for me I think it is very hard to do. As for me, this stuff is not new, but I am no expert.  Dr. Dinu's first lecture introduced us to the types of data gathered in bioinformatics.  Such as gene expression data, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome.  The second lecture he talked about methods used in bioinformatics.  Method such as data mining and statistical tools.

As I reviewed the lecture I found a really good site with definitions about everything and anything that has to do with genes: http://www.genome.gov/Glossary
Hope it helps.

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