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Bioinformatics Provides an Overview of the Design of a Cell

The design principles of a cell are derived from molecular biology: The flow of genetic

information follows from the genome via RNA to individual proteins. This can be decoded

bioinformatically in detail by sequence analyses and more elaborate methods.

Bioinformatics thus enables a deeper, previously unattained insight into the molecular

biology of the cell and the underlying design principles through the analysis of large

sequence data and other types of data.

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Bioinformatics Provides Detailed Insights into the Molecular

Biology of the Cell

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