"Computational Biology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets.
| Descriptor ID |
D019295
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.158.273.180 L01.313.124
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| Concept/Terms |
Computational Molecular Biology- Computational Molecular Biology
- Biologies, Computational Molecular
- Biology, Computational Molecular
- Computational Molecular Biologies
- Molecular Biologies, Computational
- Molecular Biology, Computational
Bio-Informatics- Bio-Informatics
- Bio Informatics
- Bio-Informatic
- Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatic
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Computational Biology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Computational Biology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 2005 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2006 | 14 | 15 | 29 |
| 2007 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| 2009 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13 | 20 |
| 2011 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2012 | 9 | 13 | 22 |
| 2013 | 13 | 17 | 30 |
| 2014 | 10 | 16 | 26 |
| 2015 | 3 | 21 | 24 |
| 2016 | 13 | 17 | 30 |
| 2017 | 17 | 25 | 42 |
| 2018 | 11 | 25 | 36 |
| 2019 | 27 | 17 | 44 |
| 2020 | 19 | 19 | 38 |
| 2021 | 11 | 22 | 33 |
| 2022 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2023 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2024 | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| 2025 | 14 | 16 | 30 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Computational Biology" by people in Profiles.
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Tractor workflow: a scalable Nextflow framework for local ancestry-aware genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics. 2026 May 03; 42(5).
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Online tutorial on survival analysis for biomarker discovery. PLoS Comput Biol. 2026 Mar; 22(3):e1014046.
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Assessment of In-Frame Indel Variants in an Unsolved Cohort of Inherited Retinal Diseases Using Machine Learning. Hum Mutat. 2026; 2026:3902530.
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Aggregation of gene regulatory information and knowledge on FAIR principles enables discovery of pathogenic gene regulatory variants. Bioinformatics. 2026 Feb 28; 42(3).
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Quantifying the population-level impact of expanded antibiotic treatment for cholera outbreak management. PLoS Comput Biol. 2026 Feb; 22(2):e1013980.
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CRESSENT: a bioinformatics toolkit to explore and improve ssDNA virus annotation. Microb Genom. 2026 Feb; 12(2).
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Pathways, outputs and impact of NIH-supported bioinformatics and genomics graduate trainees in Africa. Brief Bioinform. 2026 Jan 07; 27(1).
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Computational Ligand-Binding Site Prediction. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2026; 1496:193-216.
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Microbiome Profiling in Chagas Disease: Sample Collection, Sequencing, and Analysis. Methods Mol Biol. 2026; 3013:265-297.
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A guide to transcriptomic deconvolution in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2026 Feb; 26(2):84-103.