Figure 1. Use of the term “bioinformatics” in Google Trends.

The use of the term “bioinformatics” in Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=bioinformatics&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0) plotted with relative scaling, i.e., scaled to the average search traffic for the term (y-axis) during the time period (x-axis) (for additional explanations, check the About document http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html). The trend equation and the R² factor are also shown.