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Computational Biology

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Definition: A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories applicable to MOLECULAR BIOLOGY and areas of computer-based techniques for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.  SPEC; SPEC qualif; coord IM with specific biol spec (IM); DF: COMPUTATIONAL BIOL   
See Also Medical Informatics
Examples Genomics; Metabolomics; Systems Biology
Other names Computational Molecular Biology; Biology, Computational; Bio-Informatics; Molecular Biology, Computational; Bioinformatics

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