Biomedical Informatics

Table of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefaceContributors1. Management of Information in Distributed Biomedical CollaboratoriesDavid B. Keator2. Enabling Public Data Sharing: Encouraging Scientific Discovery and EducationChristine Fennema-Notestine 3. Mediator Infrastructure for Information Integration And Semantic Data Integration Environment for Biomedical ResearchJeffrey S. Grethe, Edward Ross, David Little, Brian Sanders, Amarnath Gupta, Vadim Astakhov4. System Biology of Gene RegulationMichael Baitaluk5. Current computational methods for prioritizing candidate regulatory polymorphismsStephen Montgomery 6. Methods of information geometry in computational system biology (Consistency between Chemical and Biological Evolution)Vadim Astakhov7. Protein Structure Prediction based on Sequence SimilarityLukasz Jaroszewski8. Applications of Bioinformatics to Protein Structures - How Protein Structure and Bioinformatics OverlapGye Won Han, Chris Rife, Michael R. Sawaya9. Knowledge Discovery via Machine Learning for Neuro-degenerative Disease ResearchersI. Burak Özyurt, Gregory G. Brown10. Brain Model of Text Animation as a Data Mining Strategy Tamara Astakhova, Vadim Astakhov11. Processes Parallelization Using 'Grid Wizard Enterprise'Marco Ruiz12. Single Sign-On in a Grid PortalRamil V. Manansala

From the reviews:"Technicians and researchers from San Diego, California survey novel cyber-infrastructures that are currently under development in various biomedical centers around the world. They describe several architectures for large-scale collaboration across multiple centers, modern approaches in various areas of bioinformatics, and software challenges and strategies for overcoming them. ... The material could be helpful to practitioners working in bioinformatics or students preparing for it." (SciTech Book News, March, 2010)"This volume in the Methods in Molecular Biology series provides an overview of novel cyberinfrastructures that are fundamental to present-day biomedical informatics. ... Scientists involved in biomedical informatics ... who are active in the field of biomedical research are the intended audience. This includes both first-time and seasoned students and biomedical researchers who are interested in using informatics technologies in their laboratories. ... This is an excellent contribution to the literature dedicated to the study of bioinformatics in biomedical sciences." (Ruben Mestril, Doody's Review Service, February, 2010)