Bioinformatics Vol. 16 no. 1 2000
Pages 5-9
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Earliest pages of bioinformatics
1 Department of Structural Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
This review is a brief outline of the chronology and essence of early events in bioinformatics, covering the period from 1869 (discovery of DNA by Miescher) to 19801981 (beginning of massive sequencing). For the purpose of this review, bioinformatics is understood as a chapter of molecular biology dealing with the amino acid and nucleotide sequences and with the information they carry.
Contact: edward.trifonov{at}weizmann.ac.il