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: the application of computer science to biological research
The 140 sequenced bacterial genomes and 1600 sequenced viral genomes, comprising potentially over 400,000 encoded proteins, already exceed by 10-fold the complexity of the human genome, which less than 3 years ago was seen as a major challenge for biocomputing.—
Rino Rappuoli and Antonello Covacci, Science, 24 Oct. 2003
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: the practice of using biocomputers to perform calculations
Further variations in biocomputing use proteins instead of nucleic acids, or DNA hairpin formation …—Estonian Journal Of Engineering, June 2011
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