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Nanoinformatics: Developing Advanced
Informatics Applications for Nanomedicine
Victor Maojo, Miguel García-Remesal, Diana de la Iglesia, José Crespo,
David Pérez-Rey, Stefano Chiesa, Martin Fritts, and Casimir A. Kulikowski
Abstract
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 Cancer Institute (NCI) and the European
Commission (EC). Nanoinformatics can be defined as the “use of informatics
techniques for analyzing and processing information about the structure and
physicochemical characteristics of nanoparticles, their environments, and appli-
cations”. Its goal is to use information to accelerate research in nanomedicine.
We summarize various areas of research and applications, such as ontologies and
semantic search, text mining, imaging, standards, together with an example of
the research our group has performed in this field on text mining for extracting
information about nanotoxicity from the literature.
Keywords
Nanomedicine • Biomedical Informatics • Nanoinformatics
• Nanoparticles • Nanoresources • Nanotoxicity • Data Integration • Ontologies
• Semantic search • Modeling and Simulation
Abbreviations
BI
Bioinformatics
BMI
Biomedical Informatics
EC
European Commission
V. Maojo (
*
), M. García-Remesal, D. de la Iglesia, J. Crespo, D. Pérez-Rey, and S. Chiesa
Departamento Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informatica, Biomedical Informatics Group,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Madrid, Spain
e-mail: vmaojo@fi.upm.es
M. Fritts
Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory and SAIC-Frederick of Computer Science,
National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
C.A. Kulikowski
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
Newark, NJ, USA
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