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Science 31 July 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5940, pp. 541 - 542
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173876
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Computing Has Changed Biology—Biology Education Must Catch Up

Pavel Pevzner1,* and Ron Shamir2

Advances in computing have forever changed the practice of biological research. Computational biology, or bioinformatics, is as essential for biology in this century as molecular biology was in the last. In fact, it is difficult to imagine modern molecular biology without computational biology. For example, a difficult algorithmic puzzle had to be solved in order to successfully assemble the human genome sequence from millions of short pieces.

1 Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
2 The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.

* Author for correspondence. E-mail: ppevzner{at}cs.ucsd.edu

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