http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~frist/Seminars/bioinformatics/bioinformatics.html
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR 21
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CENTURY BIOTECHNOLOGY
Information-driven science
Assumptions
Example: Marker-assisted selection
Chromosome maps
Selection of progeny
Final elite cultivar
The network IS the computer
The problem: standalone PCs
The solution: server-based network computing
Research in a networked environment
BIRCH - a networked bioinformatics resource
Example: Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences
An object-oriented database encodes the combined knowledge of researchers into a "knowledge base".
Example: model of a gene family
Object-oriented laboratory devices
PC-based devices
Networked devices
The Virtual Robot
