Over a decade ago, nanotechnologists began research on applications of nanomaterials for
medicine. This research has revealed a wide range of different challenges, as well as many …

Nanotechnology represents an area of particular promise and significant opportunity across
multiple scientific disciplines. Ongoing nanotechnology research ranges from the …

Nanoinformatics is an emerging research field that uses informatics techniques to collect,
process, store, and retrieve data, information, and knowledge on nanoparticles …

Objectives: Biomedical ontologies have been very successful in structuring knowl edge for
many different applications, receiving widespread praise for their utility and potential. Yet …

Motivation: Increasing rates of publication and DNA sequencing make the problem of finding
relevant articles for a particular gene or genomic region more challenging than ever …

Background: In the past decade, Medical Informatics (MI) and Bioinformatics (BI) have
converged towards a new discipline, called Biomedical Informatics (BMI) bridging …

The Human Genome Project and the explosion of high-throughput data have transformed
the areas of molecular and personalized medicine, which are producing a wide range of …

In this chapter we introduce a new informatics field called “Nanoinformatics” based on our
own research and on consensus work carried out under the auspices of the US National …

Background Over the past years, the number of available informatics resources in medicine
has grown exponentially. While specific inventories of such resources have already begun …

El crecimiento de Internet y la proliferación de información multidominio de forma pública ha
propiciado la aparición de nuevas oportunidades en entornos muy dispares, principalmente …