waht is the future of bioinformatics?
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To be frank it is bleek as it is being talked about since 5 years and there is no special hike in the careers.
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With the current hardware technology about to reach its outer limits of physics will the next revolution be in streamlining software? \n\nI have worked in technology since the ‘60’s. In the 60’s it was not uncommon for a major company to run its payroll programs on machines with as little as 16 kilobytes of main memory. I know that the missions to the moon were calculated on computers with one megabyte of main memory or less. Today we are looking at machines with 4-8 gigabytes of memory and it takes 5-minutes just to boot up a PC. It looks like there is plenty of room to improve operating systems and applications.\n\nGranted today’s computers have slicker user interfaces and are easier to use by the general public, but they have become very inefficient users of software. The object code era has allowed really poor coding to become imbedded in most of today’s applications. \n\nOnce the hardware reaches the point where adding processors adds zero throughput won’t it be time to take a look at the sloppy code written over the past twenty-five to thirty years? Isn’t there room for a revolution in software redevelopment?
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Well, what do you want to know?\n\nI've got a masters and worked in biotech for 10 miserable years before going back to school and becoming a programmer.\n\nThere's no money in biotech (for the actual scientists), and from what my former co-workers are finding out, there's not a heck of a lot of job stability anymore either.
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I think analyzing the information in DNA has come along way.  This information can be useful for numerous advances in medicine, one being determining ones predisposition of developing certain diseases.  This analysis can take quite a long time but researches are currently working on ways to speed this up, hopefully to less than 1 day.  You can see this article in New Scientist for a further information.  http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9001&feedId=online-news_rss20
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Stem cell research and cloning are still "blockbusters", but specific antibody research, gene therapy and advanced imaging techniques (fret, for example) are hot too.\n\nOff course, I would certainly add RNA interference to the list!
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http://www.wsd1.org/Central/genome_development.htm\nhttp://www.genometheory.com/\nPlease click the above links to know in detail.
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Biotechnology is the use of biological techniques to develop products.  Typically, biotech companies are those that research microorganisms, such as bacteria, or cellular components, like DNA, to produce drugs, lab equipment, etc.\n\nBiochemistry is the study of the chemical compounds/processes that occur in living organisms.  If you think of your body, you can zoom down and find cells, then zoom down again and find proteins making your body run.  At that point, single molecules of Oxygen or Phosphate, for example, are vital.  That is the level of biochemistry.\n\nBioinformatics is the application of computer science to molecular biology.  In recent years, a huge amount of informatoin about gene sequences and proteins have been generated.  Bioinformatics is interested in using computers to get meaningful answers from all this information.  It's also the field I'm doing my graduate work in.\n\nHope this helps.
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u can do something with genomics, it's a really hot topic right now. there's more info here \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
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try this website\n\nhttp://www.nscalliance.org/bioinformatics/databases.asp
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Sure, \ntry www.genetic-programming.com It's Dr Koza's page.... you'll need some time to find the information.
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The use of computers to handle biological information. The term is often used to describe computational molecular biology – the use of computers to store, search and characterize the genetic code of genes, the proteins linked to each gene and their associated functions.
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Here you can find.\n\nhttp://www.bioinformatics-india.com/public/drupal/index.php\n\nIf you need more info, feel free to contact me.
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Here is one that is pretty good.  This is for comparing comparing known theoretical sequence with sequence obtained by experimentation.\n\nI think NCBI also has comparative sequence feature, but I have not found it to be that great.\n\nHope this helps.  Pass on the good Karma!
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If you are looking into this with the idea of taking up a career in bioinformatics, I would go with it. It is definitely a growth industry from what I could gather by browsing through a few websites. For more information about jobs and training and a basic idea of what bioinformatics is all about, checkout the websites below.
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Something dealing with genetics.  Bioengineering is going to be huge.  \n\nHonestly, anything dealing with math and Science will land you a job since there are so few people in the United States with those skills.
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Biological computers aren't a myth anymore... For those who don't believe this, read this article:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/358822.stm\nOf course I don't say it's a genius because it's not, but this computer is capable of learning, associtaing relations, show the results depending on its knowledge and so on... \nArtificial Intelligence is growing very fast so who knows what the future will bring. For now it's just in developing stage, or with national security status :P.\nhttp://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/02/the_rise_of_the.html
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Bioinformatics is using computer to analyse bio-data. Such as a huge data base of human genome, or what they are working on now - the human proteome. \n\nBiotechnology is a really wide topic, can include gene manipulation, amplification, forensics etc etc. Such as putting a jelly fish glow gene into a mice so it glows in dark. Really cool stuff. Protein manipulations, etc etc etc