The history of bioinformatic in Russia

The paper is devoted to the history of the origin and development of bioinformatics in Russia, a new scientific discipline that arose as a result of the active introduction of computer technologies in solving biological problems. One of the main tasks of bioinformatics is to decipher the genomes of various organisms, including individual human genomes. In addition to sequencing individual genomes, work has begun on decoding the genomes of microbial communities, including the human intestinal microbial flora. When solving various problems of bioinformatics, there was a need to search for new computer programs and powerful computing resources. Special Internet resources have been created that allow processing huge amounts of data. Bioinformatics began to develop actively only in the 1980s in Russia, largely lagging behind the European and American centers of bioinformatics. Currently the largest centers of bioinformatics in the Faculty of bioengineering and bioinformatics of Moscow State University, Scientific and training center “Bioinformatics” of Institute for information transmission problems RAS, Institute of molecular biology RAS, Institute of Cytology and genetics, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Centre “Bioengineering” of the Russian Academy of Sciences.