How to Use bioinformatics in a Sentence

bioinformatics

noun
  • Once those long reads are obtained, powerful bioinformatics software is used to build longer stretches of contiguous sequence by overlapping reads that share the same sequence of bases.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • None of these hugely ambitious efforts would be conceivable without the enormous advances in genome sequencing and bioinformatics over the past couple of decades.
    — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But developing antigens tailored to different cancer types requires whole-genome sequencing or complex bioinformatics screenings, the researchers explained.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For professionals and instructors working in genetics, microbiology, or bioinformatics, this dimension of the research carries particular weight.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Our region’s thriving life sciences industry will demand even greater expertise in lab automation, bioinformatics and regulatory compliance — fields that blend scientific knowledge with digital fluency.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Using tools from bioinformatics and geochemistry, Lloyd, now at the University of Southern California, makes organisms visible that are doubly beyond our view — in terms of their microscopic size and their hard-to-reach locations.
    — Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Early adopters of AlphaGenome, the bioinformatics researchers used the AI tool as an independent cross-check, confirming that genes implicated by sleep loss were especially active in their neurons of interest—just as their earlier analysis of gene-expression data from brain tissue had predicted.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Interrogating the history of the P-loop The pioneer of bioinformatics, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, hypothesized in 1966 that the large collection of big proteins seen today arose from small peptides that were duplicated and fused over long periods of time.
    — Liam Longo, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025

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