What is Bioinformatics?

One idea for a definition:

(Molecular) Bio - informatics =

is conceptualizing biology in terms of molecules (in the sense of physical-chemistry) and then applying "informatics" techniques (derived from disciplines such as applied math, CS, and statistics) to understand and organize the information associated with these molecules, on a large-scale.

The Bioinformatics Spectrum

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