Bioinformatics is a field that combines biology, computer science, and statistics to analyze biological data. This interdisciplinary field has significantly contributed to various fields, such as genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery.
UNIX is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems. UNIX has a reputation for stability, security, and scalability, making it a popular choice for scientific computation.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is an emerging technology to determine DNA/RNA sequences for whole genome or specific regions of interest at much lower cost than traditional Sanger sequencing.