Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary area involving biological, statistical and computational sciences. Bioinformatics enables cancer researchers not only to manage, analyse, mine and understand the currently accumulated, valuable, high-throughput data, but also to integrate these in their current research programmes. Technological advances in the analysis of DNA, RNA, proteins, cells and tissues have accelerated the field of translational bioinformatics in recent years, producing large amounts of data, reflecting the complexity of biological systems.
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