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Bioinformatics: The Convergence between Biotechnology and ITC Impacts on the Productive Sector

Bioinformatics: The Convergence between Biotechnology and ITC Impacts on the Productive Sector
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Author(s): Jorge E. Niosi (Université de Quebec à Montréal, Canada)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 27
Source title: Comparative Approaches to Biotechnology Development and Use in Developed and Emerging Nations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tomas Gabriel Bas (University of Talca, Chile)and Jingyuan Zhao (University of Toronto, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1040-6.ch002

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Abstract

Bioinformatics is the methodological tool required to use the massive genomics databases being created on human, animal, bacterial and vegetal organisms. This paper retraces the development of bioinformatics as a new discipline and its diffusion into Latin America. It argues that governments in the region do not pay enough attention at this fast-growing new area of the set of biotech technologies stemming from the convergence between information and communication technology and biotechnologies, and in consequence, the region is falling increasingly behind the world leader (the United States), Japan and Western Europe.

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