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B I O I N FO R MAT I C S I N TH E H E A LT H F I E L D Jocelyn Robles
B.S. in Biotechnology is currently a specialist in initiation of studies and closure of studies at CidVID.
Over the last few years, we have constantly been linking words in the area of medicine with others from science and technology, as we hear more and more about fields such as “biotechnology,” “biomedicine,” and “bioinformatics.” What does all of this mean for us and for our health in general? These new and diverse multidisciplinary groups have made possible solutions and techniques for diagnosis and treatments that were not available before, or have improved the ones that were already in use. Bioinformatics, for example, is a field
that combines biological data with health information, analyzing it so that it can be used in the medical field (Majhi et al., 2019). A very good instance of this is the Human Genome Project (Venter et al., 2001). While this did not provide us with a complete human genome, it did mark the beginning of human genomics and generated many new possibilities for using bioinformatics (Ahn, 2011). Thanks to a “reference genome,” made available through this project, it is now possible to compare a patient’s
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