Bioinformatics lies at the nexus of the biological sciences and the computational sciences. Therefore it is sometimes worth comparing these ...

The draft Minimum Information about a Phylogenetic Analysis standard (Leebens-Mack et al. 2006) suggests that all relevant information abo...

For those of you who have missed it, the magazine Nature has recently looked at the 100 most highly cited science papers of all time (acro...

These illustrations are from Alper Uzun's Biocomicals web site. Bioinformaticians' dream Bioinformaticians...

Bioinformatics is sometimes divorced from biology. This happens when the ideas involved are solely computational ones, and are not biologic...

Bioinformaticians are sometimes seen as multi-disciplinary workers (see the previous post on Results of some bioinformatics polls ). If so,...

In 2008, Michael Barton conducted a Bioinformatics Career Survey . Since then, various groups have updated some of that information by cond...

Bioinformatics as a term dates back to the 1970s, usually credited to Paulien Hogeweg , of the Bioinformatics group at Utrecht University, ...