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Bioinformatics
Use code and statistics to find meaningful patterns in very large biological datasets.
What this field studies
Modern biology produces more data than anyone can read by hand. Bioinformaticians write software and use statistics to align sequences, measure gene activity and build evolutionary trees from that data.
Questions researchers are asking
- How can comparing thousands of genomes reveal how a virus evolves?
- Which genes are switched on or off in a disease?
- How are different virus strains related to one another?
- How can we tell different cell types apart from their gene activity alone?