PMID: 15227550Jul 1, 2004Paper

Bioinformatics: towards new directions for public health

Methods of Information in Medicine
V Maojo, F Martin-Sanchez

Abstract

Epidemiologists are reformulating their classical approaches to diseases by considering various issues associated to "omics" areas and technologies. Traditional differences between epidemiology and genetics include background, training, terminologies, study designs and others. Public health and epidemiology are increasingly looking forward to using methodologies and informatics tools, facilitated by the Bioinformatics community, for managing genomic information. Our aim is to describe which are the most important implications related with the increasing use of genomic information for public health practice, research and education. To review the contribution of bioinformatics to these issues, in terms of providing the methods and tools needed for processing genetic information from pathogens and patients. To analyze the research challenges in biomedical informatics related with the need of integration of clinical, environmental and genetic data and the new scenarios arisen in public health. Review of the literature, Internet resources and material and reports generated by internal and external research projects. New developments are needed to advance in the study of the interactions between environmental agents and genetic facto...Continue Reading

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Mar 2, 2010·Journal of Translational Medicine·Indra Neil Sarkar

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