J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2003 Jun;9(2):79-91.

Genomic Medicine and Bio-Medical Informatics

• Kim JH

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a rapidly emerging field of biomedical research. A flood of large-scale genomic, proteomic and postgenomic data means that many of the challenges in biomedical research are now challenges in informatics. Clinical informatics has long developed technologies to improve biomedical research and clinical care by integrating experimental and clinical information systems. Biomedical informatics, powered by high throughput technologies, genomic-scale databases, and advanced clinical information system, is likely to transform our biomedical understanding forever much the same way that biochemistry did to biology a generation ago. The emergence of health and biomedical informatics revolutionizing both bioinformatics and clinical informatics will eventually change the current practice of medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, and prognostics.

Keyword

Human Genome Project; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Genomics; Gene expression; DNA Microarray

MeSH Terms

Biochemistry
Biology
Computational Biology
Gene Expression
Genomics
Human Genome Project
Informatics*
Information Systems
Medical Informatics
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis