How is the field of bioinformatics indispensable for genomic research? What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: The sheer size of most eukaryotic genomes required the development of new technologies,
including automated methods of DNA sequencing; advances in software to collect, analyze,
and store the information derived from sequencing; and the creation of Web-based databases
and research tools to access genome sequence information. Once a genome sequence has
been deciphered, it must be stored in a database so that it can be assembled and analyzed to
identify genes. A new field called bioinformatics was developed to use computer hardware
and software to store, analyze, visualize, and access genome sequence data.

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