Although biochemistry and computational biology have existed since the mid-1980s, bioinformatics is a fairly new scie.pngic realm, made possible by the convergence of data-intensive life sciences ...
In the beginning, there was Needleman-Wunsch, which begat Smith-Waterman, which begat FASTA, which begat BLAST, and so on. Peel away the information technology jargon surrounding these alignment ...