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Computational Biology

A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.

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Abstract

A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.

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Synonyms

12 entry terms
  • Biology, Computational
  • Bio-Informatics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Biology, Computational
  • Bio Informatics
  • Bio-Informatic
  • Bioinformatic
  • Biologies, Computational Molecular
  • Biology, Computational Molecular
  • Computational Molecular Biologies
  • Molecular Biologies, Computational

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

use for the discipline and as a coordinate for bioinformatics studies

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History Note

97

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Previous Indexing

  • Molecular Biology (1992-1996)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Computational Biology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019295. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019295
  2. Computational Biology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology
  3. Computational Biology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177005