Affiliation:
1. Independent Researcher, Algeria
Abstract
Informatics and internet technologies are becoming extremely popular in today's healthcare system. The emergence of the worldwide web has affected the way in which health-related information is distributed and accessed over cyberspace. The internet is rapidly gaining importance, not just for healthcare professionals, but also for patients, by enabling them to search for drug- and other health-related information. Bioinformatics is the combination of biology and information technology. The term bioinformatics was coined by Paulien Hogeweg in 1979 for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. Its primary use since the late 1980s has been in genomics and genetics, particularly in those areas of genomics involving large-scale DNA sequencing.