Figure 4From: Significance of bioinformatics in research of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseClinical bioinformatics can be generated from the analysis of COPD-specific pathological alterations. Patients with COPD can be selected by clinical informatics and criteria and the specific area is selected by micro-dissection. The tissue can be used for genomic (or proteomic) analysis and identified biomarkers are validated for the understanding of the pathogenesis.Back to article page