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Bioinformatics:
The merger of biotechnology and information technology with the goal
of revealing new insights and principles in biology. Genomics is producing
huge amounts of data unprecedented in biology at the level of the whole
genome. But how to manage, store, and interpret all these data, the
answer lies in a growing new discipline within genomic sciences called
bioinformatics. Bioinformatics provides a way in which to manage and
store huge amounts of data, and to create statistical tools for analyzing
it. Bioinformatics uses computer power to understand the links between
pieces of information from research areas such as molecular biology,
structural biochemistry, enzymology, cell biology, physiology and pathology.
My research interests are development of genomic database (Panzea),
DNA sequence and microarray data analysis. Panzea is is the first database
for studying molecular evolutionary genomic of maize. The relational
data model is selected and implemented in Oracle for Panzea. Panzea
has the ability to storing, integrating, and visualizing DNA sequence,
enzymatic, SSR markers, germplasm, and phenotypic data.
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