How to Use bioinformatics in a Sentence

bioinformatics

noun
  • While still in high school, Zhao joined the bioinformatics team for a summer project and blew everyone away with his problem-solving skills.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
  • The local pairing of Petco and PetDx brings to market the latest in bioinformatics for pets.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • One is Matt Wong, a bioinformatics expert who was part of a team at Baylor University.
    Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
  • David Robertson, the head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow, was not among the letter’s signatories.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • Maria Nattestad is a software engineer at Google and, on the side, the author of a popular app that makes eye-catching visualizations from bioinformatics data.
    Clive Thompson, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • That includes building up a bioinformatics workforce in public health labs—people who can sort, clean, and interpret the reams of genomic data produced by surveillance sequencing.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Similar complaints have been raised about bioinformatics, language modeling and physics.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • Samantha Mora of Coventry is a member of the class of 2022, majoring in bioinformatics and computational biology.
    courant.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • IDbyDNA provides the bioinformatics software to analyze the data.
    Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Next generation sequencing and bioinformatics are critical biosurveillance tools for helping in the early detection of diseases in humans, livestock, and wildlife.
    Andrew Bartlow, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Mark Gerstein, a professor of bioinformatics at Yale University, found in the research implications for data privacy.
    New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • Hinrichs, a bioinformatics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explained that the computer scientists and epidemiologists who track variants watch the evolution of the virus in real time.
    Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Four of the certificate programs are at the graduate level: applied bioinformatics; data science; senior living and services leadership; and sustainability and well-being.
    Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2021
  • By the early 2000s, they were used in fields as diverse as bioinformatics (for finding similarities between different protein sequences and predicting the functions of proteins, for example), machine vision and handwriting recognition.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Most of my research was in bioinformatics — the analysis and interpretation of genetic data — and for seven years, culturing bacteria, purifying nucleic acids and writing code to analyze sequencing data were my bread and butter.
    Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Crafted precisely and accurately, these models could significantly reduce costs and also keep patients healthier, said Nigam Shah, a bioinformatics professor at Stanford.
    Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In addition to lab employees, the Stamford facility also has capacity for 100 genetic counselors, bioinformatics specialists and support service staff.
    Stephen Singer, courant.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • One company disrupting the market is ChromaCode, a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics.
    Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 6 July 2021

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