SYMBIOmatics: Synergies in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics - exploring current scientific literature for emerging topics

Background: The SYMBIOmatics Specific Support Action (SSA) is "an information gathering and dissemination activity" that seeks "to identify synergies between the bioinformatics and the medical informatics" domain to improve collaborative progress between both domains (ref. to http://www.symbiomatics.org). As part of the project experts in both research fields will be identified and approached through a survey. To provide input to the survey, the scientific literature was analysed to extract topics relevant to both medical informatics and bioinformatics. Results: This paper presents results of a systematic analysis of the scientific literature from medical informatics research and bioinformatics research. In the analysis pairs of words (bigrams) from the leading bioinformatics and medical informatics journals have been used as indication of existing and emerging technologies and topics over the period 2000–2005 ("recent") and 1990–1990 ("past"...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Graham Cameron, Dominic Clark, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jean-Louis Coatrieux, Eva del Hoyo-Barbolla, Fernando Martín-Sánchez, Luciano Milanesi, Ivan Porro, Francesco Beltrame, Ioannis G. Tollis, Johan van der Lei
• Keywords: Bioinformatics, BMCBI 2007, Medical Informatics, Scientific Literature