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Bioinformatics appears as the result of the indissoluble marriage between informatics technology and life sciences. Although it was conceived in principle to resolve questions such as the following: How to store and organize DNA sequences? How to find introns and exons in genomic DNA sequences? What conditions are required for the transcription of a specific gene? How learn more about the structure of a protein? How does it compare sequences of proteins or predict their structures?, currently the acquisition of new and improved computational tools has made it possible that bioinformatics will be key piece in applications such as genetic screening, molecular diagnosis, drug discovery and crop genetic improvement.

María Liliana Franco, Universidad del Rosario

Estudiante X semestre de Medicina, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia.

Juan Fernando Cediel, Universidad del Rosario

Profesor Auxiliar, Escuela Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Unidad de Morfología, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia.

César Payán, Universidad del Rosario

Profesor Asistente, Escuela Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Unidad de Biología, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia.
Franco, M. L., Cediel, J. F., & Payán, C. (2008). Brief history of bioinformatics. Colombia Medica, 39(1), 117–120. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v39i1.558

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