Comments on: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-and-computational-biology/ Computer science, bioinformatics, genetics, and everything in between Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:35:39 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jonathan Badger http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-and-computational-biology/comment-page-1/#comment-2543 Jonathan Badger Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:39:29 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=961#comment-2543 Oh, agreed. Take the journal <em>Bioinformatics</em> for example -- no matter which way you define the two terms, clearly both Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are published in it. Oh, agreed. Take the journal Bioinformatics for example — no matter which way you define the two terms, clearly both Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are published in it.

]]> By: Thomas Mailund http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-and-computational-biology/comment-page-1/#comment-2540 Thomas Mailund Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:48:10 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=961#comment-2540 Jonathan: I get your point. I am not saying that I have ever used the terms correctly, just that I also made the distinction that Russ uses (almost, anyway). I am probably getting the terms wrong ;) In my experience, though, people associated "bioinformatics" with lots of different things... Jonathan: I get your point. I am not saying that I have ever used the terms correctly, just that I also made the distinction that Russ uses (almost, anyway). I am probably getting the terms wrong ;)

In my experience, though, people associated “bioinformatics” with lots of different things…

]]> By: ScienceSealedDelivered http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-and-computational-biology/comment-page-1/#comment-2537 ScienceSealedDelivered Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:11:45 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=961#comment-2537 Hi -- I've linked to this piece from another, as I believe it's relevant to my <a href="http://www.thinknew.ca/ssd/index.php/2009/02/18/scientist-or-engineer/" rel="nofollow">own viewpoint on such distinctions</a>. Hope that's ok, and that I got your meaning straight! Hi — I’ve linked to this piece from another, as I believe it’s relevant to my own viewpoint on such distinctions. Hope that’s ok, and that I got your meaning straight!

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2009/02/18/bioinformatics-and-computational-biology/comment-page-1/#comment-2534 Jonathan Badger Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:49:46 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=961#comment-2534 But "informatics" by itself refers to the applied forms of computing, particularly database use -- for example "medical informatics" deals with the problem of using databases to keep track of hospital patients, their needed medication, (and in less enlightened nations like the US, their bill as well) rather than the more interesting problems also involving medicine and computers where SNPs are correlated with diseases or something. So wouldn't "bioinformatics" be naturally the creation and maintenance of biological databases? But “informatics” by itself refers to the applied forms of computing, particularly database use — for example “medical informatics” deals with the problem of using databases to keep track of hospital patients, their needed medication, (and in less enlightened nations like the US, their bill as well) rather than the more interesting problems also involving medicine and computers where SNPs are correlated with diseases or something. So wouldn’t “bioinformatics” be naturally the creation and maintenance of biological databases?

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