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Explore the cutting-edge convergence of bioinformatics and medical informatics in revolutionizing clinical applications for personalized medicine, diagnostics, and drug discovery. Learn how data mining techniques and 3D structure informatics are enhancing healthcare delivery.
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The Convergence of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics -- PL Chang, M.D.
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Informatics United: Combining Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics • The use of image processing techniques for the analysis of the dynamics of cell nuclei • The application of medical informatics tools for data mining in bioinformatics • Clinical decision support systems based on bioinformatics have the potential to improve medical diagnostics and lead to a personalized delivery of healthcare
Clinical Applications • Diagnostic tools • Gene chips, protein chips • Early detection of infectious agent, congenital disorders, susceptibility to disease and, eventually, idiosyncrasy • Drug Discovery/Development • Gene expression profile • Protein structure and candidate molecules
Clinical Bioinformatics Medical informatics Genomics Proteomics Comparative genome analysis Bio-decision support system Pharmacogenomics Microarray Structure databases Systems biology Bioinformatics in cancer research Personalized medicine Clinical Applications
How Will the Medicine of the 21st Century Be Like? • BioMedical informatics • Medical informatics and bioinformatics • Intelligent representation, storage, retrieval and application • Data and Text mining • Personalized medicine • Diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis based on bioinformatics