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Computational Biology

"Computational Biology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Computational Biology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Computational Biology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 434 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 29 publications in 2015 and 2019
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