title: Bioinformatics.
abstract: Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that blends computer science and biostatistics with biological and biomedical sciences such as biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, and physiology. An important goal of bioinformatics is to facilitate the management, analysis, and interpretation of data from biological experiments and observational studies. The goal of this review is to introduce some of the important concepts in bioinformatics that must be considered when planning and executing a modern biological research study. We review database resources as well as data mining software tools.
authors.affiliation: Computational Genetics Laboratory, Departments of Genetics and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. jason.h.moore@dartmouth.edu
authors.forename: Jason H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface