jarl van katwijk wrote: > > In the definition the people of the SFI (http://www.santafe.edu/) do, > 'Emerging Science', nothing can be seen standalone, it's all part of a system. Well, bioinformatics is multidisciplinary science, invloving just about all of the allied fields of comp sci, biology, chemistry, physics, math and engineering. It's about as 'cutting edge' as you can get. But the word is simply the combination of the 2 words... biology + informatics and literally means, "information technologies for biology". Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+