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Big Data Analysis in Bioinformatics

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Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies

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Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics algorithms; Bioinformatics big data

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Genomics:

“Genomics describes the study of all of a person’s genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person’s environment” (Source National Human Genome Research Institute).

Proteomics:

“Proteomics describes the study of all the proteins (the proteome) in an organism, tissue type, or cell” (Source National Human Genome Research Institute).

Interactomics:

“Interactomics describes the study the whole set of molecular interactions (the interactome) in an organism, tissue type, or cell.”

Pharmacogenetics:

“Pharmacogenetics is the field of study dealing with the variability of responses to medications due to variation in single genes” (Source National Human Genome Research Institute).

Pharmacogenomics:

“Pharmacogenomics is similar to pharmacogenetics, except that it typically involves the search for variations in multiple genes that are associated with...

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Cannataro, M. (2018). Big Data Analysis in Bioinformatics. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_139-1

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