Clinical bioinformatics: subject and objectives
AUTHORS : Skrypnyuk Z.D.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Research Institute of Integrative and Negentropic
medicine, Kiev-1, Ukraine
YEAR : 2007
At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, it was accepted that “bioinformatics” is a science, the subject of which is the study of the
information state (structure) and information processes in biological systems. In other words, the subject of science “bioinformatics” is the study of the processes of
receiving, transferring, processing and storing information in living systems. With this definition, the subject of science “bioinformatics” includes the study
information processes involved in regulation and control at all levels of living systems – from macromolecules to the brain of higher animals and humans
(Skrypnyuk 1999 A, 1999 B, 2002; Chailakhyan, 2005).