Privacy, the Individual and Bioinformatics: 71 A Buddhist Perspective
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Abstract
Bioinformatics is a new field of study in which the power of
computer technology is harnessed to process biological information;
thus the field is an interesting one where the two major technological
trends of the early twenty-first century, namely biotechnology and
information technology, are fused together. The application of
computers and information technology in biological science has been
necessary because biological information is exploding at an
exponential rate, and there are many applications that the utilization
of computer technology could lead to breakthroughs. One clear area
of the application is of course the use of computers to sequence
the human genome, which would not have been even conceivable if
not for the use of a large amount of raw computing power to crunch
through all the information that is available. Moreover, as of now
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