Major event in Bioinformatics History
• 2000 - A Major event happened that was to change the course of human history • It was a joint British and American effort • It was a race – who will complete first • Human genome was sequenced
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The Birth of Bioinformatics
• The explosion of data produced by Human Genome Project has called forth the creation of new discipline – bioinformatics, whose focus is on the acquisition, storage, analysis, modeling, and distribution of the many types of information embedded in protein sequence data. Lee Rowen, Gregory Mahairas, and Leroy Hood, Science, October 24, 1997