Number of publications, plotted on a natural logarithm scale (verticle axis: ln(1) = 0 to ln 8 = 2981), categorized by a Web-Of-KnowledgeSM search using the topic “Bioinformatics” for all year 1993 to 2011. Only three publications appear before 1992 (1 each in 1989, 1990, and 1991, 0 in 1992) and roughly each year (dotted line) from 4 in 1993 to 98 in 1998, and then tapering off to under 1920 in 2011.