Bioinformation Explained

Bioinformation is a barcode-like language that organisms use to interact with their environment more efficiently. By communicating with organisms through bioinformation, we influence biological processes naturally and without chemical interaction. 

Example

Imagine an ordinary product with a barcode printed on the label. In the entire world, this barcode is unique to that product only. If referenced, the barcode will correctly identify the product and offer a range of data that can include size or volume, ingredients, country of manufacture, etc. Barcodes are an enormous value to industry because they allow companies to identify and handle products appropriately and efficiently. Without barcodes, companies would have to pay employees to individually inspect each and every item in order to correctly identify and inventory it. The process would be very costly, time consuming, and prone to error.

AquaLiv has discovered that plants and animals use a similar system to the barcode. We named this biological barcode, bioinformation. Like the barcode in our example, bioinformation reveals much about a substance. So much so, in fact, that biological processes often respond to the bioinformation of a substance just as strongly as the substance itself.

Definitions

Bioinformation
The biological information signature of a substance or compound

Bioinformative
Containing beneficial Bioinformation

Bioinformatics*
The science of processing Bioinformation for storage and retrieval, including the scanning, recording, mixing, and programming of bioinformation for desired effects in organisms

* The term bioinformatics was coined by Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper in 1978 for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems. Its primary use since at least the late 1980s has been in genomics and genetics, particularly in those areas of genomics involving large-scale DNA sequencing. AquaLiv's Bioinformatics is a higher level science than the current use of this term refers to and deals specifically with the naturally occurring biological information signature inherent to all substances and compounds.