In this paper, we analyse how human bodies are understood and viewed in bioinformatics, partly based on participant observations of a basic bioinformatics course and interviews with bioinformatics researchers. With the proliferation of genomic data, bioinformatics has come to play a crucial role in developments in the biological and biomedical sciences. It is thus worth looking at the role of bioinformatics in current understandings of human bodies. Our analysis shows that bodies in this context can be understood as networked and calculable , along the lines of the analytical logic of informatics. Central to this view are the genome sequences that do not, as in earlier narratives on genes as essentially informational, contain bodies completely. Rather, bodies are enacted as accessible through these sequences. In the process, bodies are continuously matched to the digital image of a normal body. This normal body is an ideal rather than an average body, an ideal that arises from the possibilities and restrictions of science and computer technologies.

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可计算的身体：分析生物信息学中身体的制定

在本文中，我们分析了如何在生物信息学中理解和看待人体，部分基于对基础生物信息学课程的参与者观察和对生物信息学研究人员的采访。随着基因组数据的激增，生物信息学在生物和生物医学科学的发展中发挥着至关重要的作用。因此，值得研究生物信息学在当前对人体的理解中的作用。我们的分析表明，根据信息学的分析逻辑，在这种情况下，身体可以被理解为网络化和可计算的。这种观点的核心是基因组序列，正如早期关于基因本质上是信息的叙述中那样，基因组序列并不完全包含身体。相反，身体通过这些序列被制定为可访问的。进行中，身体不断地与正常身体的数字图像相匹配。这个正常的身体是一个理想而不是一个普通的身体，一个由科学和计算机技术的可能性和限制产生的理想。