compbio

[Saifi Khan]

Hi all:

It seems that IBM also has a dedicated research group on
'Computational Biology & Medical Informatics'.

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.compbio.html

CompBio is inherently a multi-disciplinary field with important
applications in
* medicine
* agriculture,
* chemistry
* and ultimately nanotechnology.

Medical Informatics includes knowledge discovery and mining of
clinical data, and clinical genomic data, together with the
integration and presentation of that information in useful ways
applied to patients in a clinical setting.

Although these are most commonly viewed as a hybrid of biology,
medicine, and computer science, and draws upon work in
* pattern recognition
* simulation science
* databases
* knowledge discovery,
* data mining
* and statistics and information theory,
it has a flavor of its own much as biochemistry acquired
its own character after arising from the overlap of biology
and chemistry.

Thats a nice way to place the subject in perspective.

Some of the Projects are:
* Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics
* Bioinformatics & Pattern Discovery
* Blue Gene
* Genographic Project
* Heterogeneous Databases
* Nanoscale Dewetting Transition
* The Functional Genomics and
* Systems Biology Group

My question to all the members is, if you had to pick one area
that currently is seeing a lot of growth, what would that be ?

thanks
Saifi.