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Biopharmaceutical Informatics Map
Evolving Terminology for Emerging Technologies
Comments? Questions? Revisions? Mary Chitty mchitty@healthtech.com
Last revised January 07, 2008
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Not a comprehensive list of terms, but a quick and dirty finding aid while I'm working on getting these glossaries into a (long overdue) searchable database. 
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Algorithms & data analysis algorithm artificial intelligence, biometrics,  bootstrapping, cellular automata, chaos theory, classification, classifier, cluster... , data ..., decision trees, dendrogram, dimensionality, docking algorithm, evolutionary computation, expert systems, fuzzy, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genome mining, Hansch analysis, heat map, heuristic, ill- posed problems, information theory, Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD, machine learning, neural nets, normalization, parsing, PCA Principal Components Analysis,  pattern recognition, probability, recursive partitioning, regression to the mean, robust, SIMCA, schema, schemata, self-organization, self- organizing, stochastic,, SVMs Support Vector Machines, thresholding, training set, well posed problem  Focus is on statistical and computational approaches to data organization, structured data

Bioinformatics annotated, annotation, BioPax, BISTI, BSML, bio...., computational ..., curated, databases, EBI, federated, functional bioinformatics, molecular bioinformatics, NCBI, non-redundant, pharmaceutical bioinformatics, spatio temporal dynamics, standards, structured data, wrappers Focus is on databases, analyzing sequences and trying to integrate heterogeneous biological data, unstructured data

Cheminformatics/Chemoinformatics CoMFA Comparative Molecular Field Analysis,  chemical informatics, chemical information..., chemometrics, drug design,  information silos, "plug and play", rules of five, silo systems, SAR, structure based drug design, virtual...  See also Chemistry & biology, Pharmaceutical Biology & Chemistry

Computers & computing  CORBA, captology, computation, computational, computers, computing, FLOPs, GUI, geek, grid computing, HPC High Performance Computing, legacy systems,  Linux, markup languages, middleware, Moore's Law, OASIS, OMG, object ...,  open source, peta, petaflop, RSS, supercomputers, teraFlop, teragrid, XML  Focus is on hardware and to some extent on software.

Databases & software directory Brief descriptions of 300+ databases, 30+ software programs 

In silico & molecular modeling 3D, ab initio ... , CLogP, COMFA, CADD, CAMD, CAMM,  computational..., conformational, decoys, docking, energy function, force field, gene identification, gene parsing, HMM Hidden Markov Models, in silico ... , modeling, modelling,  molecular dynamics, molecular graphics, Monte Carlo, particle swarm, pathway modeling, prediction, receptor mapping, QSAR, quantum ... , recognition, SBML, SPC, simulated..., simulations, synthetic biology, virtual screening 

Informatics overview: 3D QSAR; BioIT, Brdging Pharma and IT, clinical informatics, computational biophysics, determinism, in silico, informatics,  information overload, "just in time" information, medical informatics, molecular informatics, nonlinear, normalization, semantics 

Information management & interpretation 3D technologies, BIRN, biomedical informatics, biomedical ontologies, blog, blogging, blogosphere, classification, collaborative filtering, collaborative metadata, computational linguistics, controlled vocabulary,  DAML, DARPA, DAML & OIL, data visualization,  granularity, ... informatics, information..., interoperability, knowledge management, markup languages,  National Center for Biomedical Ontology, ontology, ... ontologies, semantics, syntax, ...taxonomies, taxonomy, web Focus is on combinations of human and automated data and information management, retrieval and interpretation.

Molecular Modeling See In silico & Molecular Modeling

Ontologies  biomedical databases, BioPax, BioPortal, Directed Acyclic Graph DAG,  GO Gene Ontology, natural language.., .MEDRA, MGED, MIAME, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), OIL, RDF,  ontologies, semantic web, SNOMED, SOFG, topic maps, UMLS

Research applied research, basic research, bleeding edge, bottom up,  cutting edge, discovery driven, hypothesis driven, interdisciplinary, meta-analysis, paradigm, proof of concept, proof of principle, R&D,  reductionism, scenario, social informatics, top down 

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