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term index 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.
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. Subset
of Drug discovery informatics.
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... Subset
of Drug discovery informatics. See also Chemistry & biology, Pharmaceutical
Biology & Chemistry
Clinical
informatics : clinical
informatics, electronic data capture, electronic medical records,
MEDRA, Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), SNOMED,
UMLS
Databases
& software directory Brief descriptions of 300+ databases, 30+ software
programs
Drug
discovery informatics 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
Genomic
informatics ab initio gene, alignment, assembled, biocomputing,
biological computing, BLAST, comparative genome annotation, complex genomes,
computational gene recognition, computational genomics, concordance, consensus
sequence, conserved sequence, contig... DDBJ, disconcordance, DNA computers, DNA
computing, Ensembl, exon parsing, exon prediction, exon shuffling, extreme
phenotype selection studies, false negative, false positive, filtering, finished
sequence, fold change, gap, GenBank, gene finding, gene identification, gene
parsing, gene prediction, gene recognition, genetic association studies, genome
annotation, genome informatics, genome visualization, genomic computing,
genomic data, GRAILexp, global normalization, GWAS Genome Wide Association
Studies, high throughput nucleotide sequencing [analysis] homology, local
alignment, log ratios, MAGE, MAGE-ML, MAML, MGED, MIAME, microarray analysis
techniques, microarrays data analysis, microarrays image analysis, microarray
informatics, mismatches, molecular sequence annotation, noise characterization,
normality, normalization, oligonucleotide array sequence analysis, Ontology
Working Group, ORF prediction, ORF Recognition, Phred .. , reverse transfection,
scaffolds, scoring methods, sequence alignment, sequence homology, sequence
ontology, sequencing data analysis, sequencing data management, sequencing data
storage, similarity search, Smith Waterman alignment, standards -- microarrays
Informatics
overview: 3D QSAR; BioIT, 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.
IT infrastructure
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.
Ontologies
& Taxonomies
biomedical databases, BioPax, BioPortal, Directed Acyclic Graph DAG, GO
Gene Ontology, natural language.., . MGED, MIAME, OIL, RDF, ontologies,
semantic web, SOFG, taxonomies, topic maps
Protein
informatics ab initio, .. annotation proteins, computational
biophysics, docking... , energy function, fold alignment, fold recognition,
Hidden Markov Models, homology model, in silico proteomics, interologs,
molecular recognition, Monte Carlo, ontologies proteomics, post translational
modification identification, protein analysis sequencing, protein array
analysis, protein bioinformatics, protein computational tools, protein data,
protein dynamics, protein identification, protein informatics, protein
interactions, protein networks, protein sequence space, protein structure
prediction, proteome map, proteome mining, proteomic analysis, proteome
informatics, quantitation proteins, regulatory homology, RNA structural
genomics, Rosetta stone method, sequence homology amino acid, similarity,
structural bioinformatics, structural genomics, structural homology, structural
proteomics, structure based design, structure based drug design, structure
prediction, SWISS PROT, threading, virtual genomes, whole proteome...
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
Bibliography
Evolving Terminology for Emerging Technologies
Comments? Questions?
Revisions? Mary Chitty mchitty@healthtech.com
Last revised March 23, 2012
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