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The web definition suggests that bioinformatics is the science that deals with the collection, organization, and analysis of large amounts of biological data using advanced information technology such as networking of computers, software, and databases. This is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline. Bioinformatics deals with information about human and other animal genes and related biological structures and processes. Genome structures such as DNA, RNA, proteins in cells, etc., are spatial in nature (Fig. 1a–c). They can be represented as two- or three-dimensional.
Images of DNA and proteins in cell as 2-D and 3-D form
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Panda, S. (2016). Bioinformatics, Spatial Aspects. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_100-2
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