Bioinformatics Quotes

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Mehmet Keçeci
“Biyoenformatik, Biyobilişim (Bioinformatics): Biyolojik bilimsel (biyobilimsel, bioscientific) verilerin toplanması, işlenmesi, anlamlı hale getirilmesi ve bunların içindeki veya etrafındaki problemlerin tesbiti, bulunması, irdelenmesi, anlaşılması ve bunlara çözüm üretimi için geliştirilmiş sanal ortam algısını (In Silico, Silicio, in Glass) canlılık (in Vivo), gerçeklik ve realiteyi daha iyi anlamamıza yardımcı olan bir disiplin dalıdır.”
Mehmet Keçeci, Biyoenformatik I

“Far from being a homogenous "Big Science," biotechnology is highly diversified and heterogeneous. "The" human genome is not a single database, but a cluster of semi-autonomous databases housed at universities, biotech companies, and independent research institutes. In fact, because any computer user can, if he or she wishes, download the entire genome, "the" human genome is probably more distributed than we can guess.

From: "Open source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies" by Eugene Thacker”
Eduardo Kac, Signs of Life: Bio Art And Beyond

“Each protein sequence that is established, each evolutionary mechanism that is illuminated, each major innovation in phylogenetic history that is revealed will improve our understanding of the history of life”
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff