Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Coding and Biology



Many people don’t see coding and biology as going together. The only instance anyone probably heard of is, DNA coding, which is not exactly done in Java or MATLAB. But soon, you will find that these two components are going to be intertwined. The reason is, coding aids both diagnosis and research of medical diseases.  Scientist and Doctors can use codes to analyze a patient’s medical report quicker and cross reference with previous cases to more efficiently treat patients. In the same way, doctors are currently using coding constructs to study tumors and determine the stage, drug resistance and prognosis of cancer in patients. This task is usually extraneous and time consuming: going through each line of DNA and find a mutation or similarity between other cancers. But codes and computer can doe this thousands of times faster and more accurately.

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