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What's Bioinformatics?

       Every living organism contains a genetic code called DNA, which is a sequence of A's, T's, C's, and G's in a specific sequence to encode for proteins through biological processes. Mutations in these protein coding regions of DNA cause medical conditions and abnormal appearances of various organisms. Knowing the sequence of this code will allow scientist to create treatments for conditions and be able to select for traits in breeding projects by amplifying genes with PCR. With the current technology used to determine the sequence, only small fragments can be determined and need to assembled using bioinformatics tools.

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