Molecular biology became a data science in 1953 with the determination of the DNA chemical structure

Digital computer technology and data storage technologies developed around the same time

Amino acid first biological sequences determined, followed by nucleotides

bioinformatics defined by Pauline Hogeweg and Ben Hesper in 1970:

“the study of informatic processes in biotic systems”

Expanded in early 1980s as the volume of sequence data grew

Human genome project was formally launched in 1990