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The Role of Computers in Biotechnology
Millions of base pairs worth of DNA sequences are now known and must be analyzed: hundreds of restriction enzymes and cloning vectors must be kept track of to carry out work in genetic engineering. Computational systems have become a necessary tool to acquire, retrieve, manipulate, and analyze this information. A myth of the early days of computing was that computers were excellent number manipulators, but poor at working with other forms of information.