Bioinformatics is a new computer software technology that makes research findings on genetic engineering publicly available to t

Bioinformatics is the name given to the computer software technologies that are being devised to manage information overload. The field includes everything from storage to classification, analysis and distribution of gene and protein sequence data. Bioinformatics tools have moved genetic research out of the laboratory and transferred it to computer databases for use by anyone with access to the Internet.

Economists say that the main spur to the global soybean boom is the emergence of a middle class in China, much of whose newly disposable income has been spent on a richer, more varied diet. Over the past decade, China has been transformed from a net exporter of soybeans to the world’s largest importer in some years of whole soybeans as well as oil and meal byproducts.