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Bioinformatics is now an essential area in its own right in the biosciences and is now fully integrated into mainstream molecular biology and biotechnology in addition to many other areas, including immunology, microbiology, agriculture and medicine. There are a number of bioinformatic databases such as GenBank that contain many different types of biological information that can be accessed and analysed online using numerous resources such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) resource. It also encompasses an array of multidisciplinary approaches and is pivotal to all the areas of bioscience that are associated with the analysis of massive datasets and forms the basis of all genome project data management The fields within the area comprise biocomputation from analysis of molecular protein interactions to small-molecule library analysis in pharmacology studies, in addition to DNA and protein data analysis and similarity studies, among many other areas. Many species have dedicated databases and programs for their analysis and there are also many dedicated resources for the analysis of biological data in health and disease.

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