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Applications

Forensics & DNA fingerprinting

DNA Forensics (Identification)

DNA is very much useful in identifying potential suspects whose DNA may match evidence left at crime scenes. This helps in helping those who were wrongly accused in crimes.
Establish paternity and other family relationships.
Identify endangered and protected species as an aid to wildlife officials (could be used for prosecuting poachers).
Detect bacteria and other organisms that may pollute air, water, soil, and food.
Match organ donors with recipients in transplant programs.
Determine pedigree for seed or livestock breeds.
Authenticate consumables such as caviar and wine.

Biomedical informatics

Is a combination of information technology processes with medicine. Bioinformatics basically means a detailed study of a subject using host of tools and techniques from applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence etc. So when we say biomedical informatics we are studying medical applications, medicine and health in particular. That is applying bioinformatics for improving health and studying health in detail. Bioinformatics is applied in gene finding, genome assembly, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.

Biotechnology: Biotechnology is the science of working with living cells and their molecules to produce varied products for the benefit of mankind. Biotechnology thus can also be defined as the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products.

Biotechnology has been used since centuries; however recent developments have made the filed exciting. During the earlier eras, biotechnology was used to bake bread, brew alcoholic beverages, and breed food crops or domestic animals. The discovery that DNA stores genetic information was an important breakthrough that led to rapid development of Biotechnology.

DNA and computation

DNA is also being used for computing or rather computer procecsssors

DNA computing is advantageous over electronic computers in power use, space use, and efficiency, due to its ability to compute in a highly parallel fashion .

efficiency, due to its ability to compute in a highly parallel fashion. Israeli scientists have built a computer using DNA . A trillion DNA processors fit in a test tube and can perform a billion operations a second with 99.8 percent accuracy. The data are store in living organisms and offer a glimpse into the future of nanoscale computing. This is the first autonomous computer made of bimolecular software and hardware.

DNA History		History and Anthropology