Synergy between medical informatics and bioinformatics: facilitating genomic medicine for future health care

F. Martin-Sanchez , I. Iakovidis , S. Norager , V. Maojo , P. de Groen , J. van Der Lei , T. Jones , K. Abraham-Fuchs , Rolf Apweiler , A. Babic , R. Baud , Vincent Breton (1) , P. Cinquin , P. Doupi , M. Dugas , R. Eils , R. Engelbrecht , P. Ghazal , P. Jehenson , C. Kulikowski , K. Lampe , G. de Moor , S. Orphanoudakis , N. Rossing , B. Sarachan , A. Sousa , G. Spekowius , G. Thireos , G. Zahlmann , J. Zvárová , I. Hermosilla , F.J. Vicente

1 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand

Medical Informatics (MI) and Bioinformatics (BI) are two interdisciplinary areas located at the intersection between computer science and medicine and biology, respectively. Historically, they have been separated and only occasionally have researchers of both disciplines collaborated. The completion of the Human Genome Project has brought about in this post genomic era the need for a synergy of these two disciplines to further advance in the study of diseases by correlating essential genotypic information with expressed phenotypic information. Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is the emerging technology that aims to put these two worlds together in the new rising genomic medicine. In this regard, institutions such as the European Commission have recently launched several initiatives to support a new combined research agenda, based on the potential for synergism of both disciplines. In this paper we review the results the BIOINFOMED study one of these projects funded by the EC

Mots clés: bioinformatics; medical informatics; genomics; genomic medicine; synergy; bioinfomed

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

F. Martin-Sanchez, I. Iakovidis, S. Norager, V. Maojo, P. de Groen, et al.. Synergy between medical informatics and bioinformatics: facilitating genomic medicine for future health care. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2004, 37, pp.30-42. ⟨in2p3-00023290⟩