Bioinformatics

Preface

Purpose and Goals

Bioinformatics can refer to almost any collaborative effort between biologists or geneticists and computer scientists and thus covers a wide variety of traditional computer science domains, including data modeling, data retrieval, data mining, data integration, data managing, data warehousing, data cleaning, ontologies, simulation, parallel computing, agent-based technology, grid computing, and visualization. However, applying each of these domains to biomolecular and biomedical applications raises specific and unexpectedly challenging research issues.

In this book, we focus on data management and in particular data integration, as it applies to genomics and microbiology. This is an important topic because data are ...