What is Bioinformatics?

Introductory links

• European Bioinformatics Institute
  "Bioinformatics, an Introduction" (2013)
  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/bioinformatics/
  


• Google Defines Bioinformatics
  "Google's Definitions of Bioinformatics on the Web"
  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=googlet&oi=defmore&q=define:Bioinformatics
  


• Onelook Dictionary Searches Defines Bioinformatics
  "Onelook Dictionary Search for Bioinformatics"
  http://www.onelook.com/?loc=bm&w=bioinformatics
  


• Wikipedia
  "Bioinformatics page" (5 April 2013)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
  
  
  

General References

• PLos Computational Biology
  The Roots of Bioinformatics (2011) PLoS Collections.
  http://www.ploscollections.org/rootsofbioinformatics


• Fuller JC, Khoueiry P, Dinkel H, Forslund K, Stamatakis A, Barry J, Budd A, Soldatos TG, Linssen K, Rajput AM; HUB Participants.
  Biggest challenges in bioinformatics.
  EMBO Rep. 2013 Mar 15. PubMed abstract
  
  

Selected Topics

• Dolled-Filhart MP, Lee M Jr, Ou-Yang CW, Haraksingh RR, Lin JC.
  Computational and bioinformatics frameworks for next-generation whole exome and genome sequencing.
  ScientificWorldJournal. 2013;2013:730210. PubMed abstract
  
  
• Carrico J, Sabat A, Friedrich A, Ramirez M; on behalf of the ESCMID Study Group for Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM).
  Bioinformatics in bacterial molecular epidemiology and public health: databases, tools and the next-generation sequencing revolution.
  Euro Surveill. 2013 Jan 24;18(4). PubMed abstract
  
  
• Rossi S, Calin GA.
  Bioinformatics, Non-coding RNAs and Its Possible Application in Personalized Medicine.
  Adv Exp Med Biol. 2013;774:21-37. PubMed abstract
  
  
• Hong H, Zhang W, Shen J, Su Z, Ning B, Han T, Perkins R, Shi L, Tong W.
  Critical role of bioinformatics in translating huge amounts of next-generation sequencing data into personalized medicine.
  Sci China Life Sci. 2013 Feb;56(2):110-8. PubMed abstract
  
  
• Caccia D, Dugo M, Callari M, Ongarzone I.
  Bioinformatics tools for secretome analysis.
  Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013 Feb 5. pii: S1570-9639(13)00050-2. PubMed abstract
  
  
• Gromiha MM, Ou YY.
  Bioinformatics approaches for functional annotation of membrane proteins.
  Brief Bioinform. 2013 Mar 23. PubMed abstract
  
  
• Ngounou Wetie AG, Sokolowska I, Woods AG, Roy U, Deinhardt K, Darie CC.
  Protein-protein interactions: switch from classical methods to proteomics and bioinformatics-based approaches.
  Cell Mol Life Sci. 2013 Apr 12. PubMed abstract