Bioinformatics in China: A Personal Perspective
Figure 1
The number and percentage of bioinformatics publications from China and in all of PubMed in the past decade.
(A) The number of bioinformatics and computational biology publications from China in PubMed, retrieved from NCBI by the Entrez query “China[affiliation] AND (bioinformatics OR computational biology)”. MESH has a heading “Computational Biology” of which “Bioinformatics” is an Entry Term. The numbers provide a rough indication of growth of the field. They tend to be underestimated because some bioinformatics publications cannot be retrieved by keywords “bioinformatics OR computational biology”. However adding more keywords would increase the false positive rate significantly. (B) The number of all publications from China in PubMed, retrieved from NCBI by the Entrez query “China[affiliation]”. (C) The percentage of bioinformatics publications in China among all publications in China, in PubMed. (D) The number of bioinformatics and computational biology publications in all of PubMed, retrieved from NCBI by the Entrez query “bioinformatics OR computational biology”. (E) The number of all publications in PubMed. (F) The percentage of bioinformatics publications among all publications, in PubMed.