CHAPTER 2

Challenges Faced in the Integration of Biological Information

Su Yun Chung and John C. Wooley

Biologists, in attempting to answer a specific biological question, now frequently choose their direction and select their experimental strategies by way of an initial computational analysis. Computers and computer tools are naturally used to collect and analyze the results from the largely automated instruments used in the biological sciences. However, far more pervasive than this type of requirement, the very nature of the intellectual discovery process requires access to the latest version of the worldwide collection of data, and the fundamental tools of bioinformatics now are increasingly part of the experimental methods themselves. ...

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