[Taxacom] SENIOR LECTURER POSITION: Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, MALAYSIA

[John Grehan]

Yeah - so I would have no problem with 'molecular informatics'.

John Grehan



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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Curtis Clark
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University of Malaya, MALAYSIA

On 8/2/2011 6:48 AM, John Grehan wrote:
> Notice how 'bioinformatics' is couched in terms of only being
molecular
> biology - a common practice these days. Before being co-opted by
> molecular biology, bioinformatics was well a well established concept
in
> biodiversity (although perhaps now all of biodiversity is presumed to
> something that can simply be boiled down to molecules).

Hence the term "biodiversity informatics". There's no shame in having a 
more precise designator.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona


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