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Bioinformatics has become a hot research topic in recent years, a hot topic in several disciplines that were not so closely linked with biology previously. A side evidence of this is the fact that the 2007 Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China had received more than 800 applications from graduate students from all over the nation and from a wide collection of disciplines in biological sciences, mathematics and statistics, automation and electrical engineering, computer science and engineering, medical sciences, environmental sciences, and even social sciences. So what is bioinformatics?
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Zhang, X., Zhou, X., Wang, X. (2013). Basics for Bioinformatics. In: Jiang, R., Zhang, X., Zhang, M. (eds) Basics of Bioinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38951-1_1
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