Short history of the emergence of bioinformatics as a discipline in Europe, following the near simultaneous advent of high-throughput sequencing techniques and the World Wide Web, which made dissemination of the rapidly accumulating sequence data both simple and feasible on a large scale.
Concepts, historical milestones & the central place of bioinformatics in modern biology: a European perspective
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