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Dr. Hwa A Lim - Fther of bioinformtics.

Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing branch of biology and is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and concepts from informatics, statistics, mathematics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics and linguistics. The word describes the use of computers to manipulate biological information. In genome projects, for example, this includes the development of methods to search databases quickly, to analyze DNA sequence information and to predict protein sequence and structure from DNA sequence data. Bioinformatics is expected to impact the health sciences, medicine and biotech industrial applications.

Lim is a renowned expert and pioneer in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Currently, he is president and CEO of D'Trends, Inc., a San Ramon, California, biotech consultancy. Lim is an author and editor of numerous publications, reviews and books in the field of bioinformatics, and has organized several key meetings in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Apparently, HAL claims to have coined the word "bio/informatique" in 1987, which later became "bioinformatics". "Informatique" is the French word for "informatics", which means the same thing as "information technology" (IT) in the US. Possibly, Temple Smith made the switch from informatique to informatics, which is by far the more common spelling of the word.

HAL being the coiner of the term are webpages related to his own company,

D'Trends, and places where he has consulted.  Apparently, no one else has given him such credit.