[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 65, Issue 2

[John Grehan]

Sorry - not off the cuff. When I was involved in biodiversity surveys over 11 years ago I recall the term being used.

John Grehan

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From: Sergio Vargas [mailto:sevragorgia at gmail.com] 
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To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu; John Grehan
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>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)

could you provide examples?

tnx in advance

sergio

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> 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).
>
> John Grehan


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