Title: Define bioinformatics.
Course: Biotechnology Foundations in Health and Medical Sciences (14252) > Section: Examining the Role of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics in Medicine

Definition should include the concept that bioinformatics is the science of recognizing meaningful patterns within large pools of biological data using computing tools.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is annotation in the context of bioinformatics?
- How are various disciplines (i.e., math, computer science, biology) involved in bioinformatics?
- What is data science? How is it related to bioinformatics? What is metadata?

Teacher Resources:

- Bioinformatics (glossary entry), National Human Genome Research Project, National Institutes of Health (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Bioinformatics)