A scientist needs to find a collaborating scientist to help her with organizing a large amount of sequence data from the genome of a previously unsequenced and rare plant.This scientist should find a collaborator who specializes in _____,
A)proteomics
B)functional genomics
C)evolutionary genomics
D)bioinformatics

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A bioinformatics specialist would have the necessary expertise to handle large amounts of sequence data and organize it into meaningful information. They would also be familiar with the necessary software and tools to analyze the data and derive insights from it. Proteomics would not be relevant to sequence data, while functional genomics and evolutionary genomics may be useful in analyzing the data but would not necessarily be the primary focus of organizing the data.

A Scientist Needs to Find a Collaborating Scientist to Help