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Chapter 2 Computational Biology and Language

Understanding the structure, dynamics and function of proteins strongly parallels the mapping of words to meaning in natural language. Availability of large amounts of text in digital form has led to the convergence of linguistics with computational science, and has resulted in applications such as information retrieval and document summarization. In direct analogy, transformation of biology by data availability opened the door to convergence with computer science and information technology. In this chapter, we review applications of text and speech technologies in computational biology with particular emphasis on proteins.