Wider and richer information sources will help researchers to carry out innovative projects and healthcare professionals and managers to improve their professional activity, but larger amounts and new structures of data will imply new methods to manage and analyse them. New technologies, methods and tools will have to be developed in order to better manage the data allowing the envisaged synergic flow of information between MI and BI, and extract relevant knowledge from the integrated data structure. A careful study of the current methods, tools and technologies in use in MI and BI will drive the integrative approaches needed.
Deliverable: State of the Art on Systems for Data
Analysis, Information Retrieval and Decision Support.
This document is a comprehensive state-of-the-art review on methods and tools relevant for the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) field. It comprises methods, technologies and systems for data analysis, information retrieval and decision support. It has been elaborated by INFOBIOMED partners with the objective to produce a quick reference document that can be useful for researchers in the BMI area and related fields.
Educational material: State of the Art Report on Methods,
Technologies and Tools (wiki environment)
DiseaseCard
DiseaseCard is an information retrieval tool for accessing and integrating genetic and medical information for health applications. Resorting to this integrated environment, clinicians are able to access and relate diseases data already available in the Internet, scattered along multiple databases.
MIND - Microarray INformation Database
Mind is a free web-based database that allows the storage of all data retrieved from microarray experiments and
analysis. To gain access you have to register and then wait for the mail with all the
sign-in information.
OSIRIS
A commom task in the disease-gene association studies and pharmacogenomics research involves the search of articles that refer to the SNPs identified for a gene of interest. The large number of SNPs
reported for many genes and, more importantly, the variability in gene and SNP nomenclatures make difficult to find a convenient search strategy. With this purpose we have developed OSIRIS. OSIRIS is search a tool for the retrieval of articles from MEDLINE related to the genetic polymorphisms reported for a human gene. The variations considered are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertion/deletion polymorphisms (indel), microsatellite, and named variations (e.g. Alu
sequences).
