Bioinformatics in Green and Sustainable Technologies
The widespread issues with environmental deterioration have compelled society to reconsider its methods of growth and to develop the idea of sustainable development. A new field called bioinformatics that integrates computational biology allows scientists to exploit biological data in great detail f...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IntechOpen
2024
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| Online Access: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/87540 |
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| Summary: | The widespread issues with environmental deterioration have compelled society to reconsider its methods of growth and to develop the idea of sustainable development. A new field called bioinformatics that integrates computational biology allows scientists to exploit biological data in great detail for the growth of their field. In bioinformatics, computers are used to store, process and analyse enormous volumes of data as well as to retrieve it. The study of bioinformatics has attracted considerable attention recently. In order to deduce the information and make discoveries, bioinformatics creates algorithms and appropriate data analysis tools. When different bioinformatics tools are used in biological research, the results can be stored, retrieved, analysed, annotated, and visualised, which aids in a more thorough knowledge of biological systems. Sustainability is a key focus in environmental science and the expansion of the world economy, and sustainable technology is frequently associated with the design and analysis of complex, integrated management systems and sustainable development. This has improved understanding of complicated phenomena like evolution, adaptation, and ecology and made it possible to retrieve information about the evolutionary relationships among all living things. We give an overview of some of the informatics, genomic, and metabolomic methods being utilised, created, or currently under development for the study of microbial diversity and ecology. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-83769-288-0 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.112108 |