Bioinformatic practical applications in biotechnology, medicine, environmental and agricultural sciences

Abstract

The new massive sequencing technologies of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) have allowed a great advance in health, biology, environmental, agricultural, and biotechnology sciences. However, the gigantic amount of data (big data) obtained from each experiment requires increasingly demanding computational power and also experimented computer scientists. Therefore, the field of bioinformatics, or the use of computing applied to the understanding of biological systems, requires specialized analysts who have an understanding of both biology and computational systems