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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Across Europe, the story is the same. Demand for those skilled in bioinformatics exceeds supply. Like biochemistry and biophysics before it,

bioinformatics is crushing the barriers between traditional academic fields, and demanding flexibility and a new way of thinking from its adherents. Computational biology has meant different

things to different people. Not too long ago, says Hans Prydz of the University of Oslo's Biotechnology Centre, it meant handling NMR data or analysing Doppler echograms. Now renamed

bioinformatics, it means looking for patterns in DNA and RNA, predicting protein structure, modelling proteins and mining massive databases that continue to grow. When the DNA database run

by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) was first set up, it contained 700,000 nucleotides: now there are more than a billion. This is a preview of subscription content, access via

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Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, UK Helen Gavaghan Authors * Helen Gavaghan View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and

permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Gavaghan, H. Running to catch up in Europe. _Nature_ 389, 420–421 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38808 Download citation * Issue Date: 25

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