Officers
Chair
Associate Professor Laurent Mouchard (King’s College London, UK & University of Rouen, France)
Co-Chairs
Professor Costas Iliopoulos (King’s College London, UK)
Dr Maja Hadzic (DEBII, Curtin University, Australia)
Secretary
Ms Meifania Chen (DEBII, Curtin University, Australia)
Aims
To obtain a deeper understanding of the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications and help in the development of its theoretical foundations and technological underpinning, as well as its global integration from molecular analysis to clinical diagnosis.
Scope
Study of the formal and practical knowledge representation issues of the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications.
Design, evaluation and use of ontologies for the various layers we would like to integrate, including genome, proteins, molecular pathways and clinical diagnosis.
Evaluation and state of the art data mining tools for inferring new information from existing and new biological and biomedical databases.
Study of the semantics of agent and web interaction for this purpose.
Issues related to the development, design and deployment of web services particularly the impact of semantic aspects
Studies of human centred aspects specifically for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications, including discovery of early cancer stages, such as through genomic predispositions and/or functional medical imaging (PETscan and fMRI).
Study of the impact of Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications computing on organizations and society
Interoperability of data and Web Services including aspects of Trust, Security and Privacy
Content-based information and knowledge retrieval
Metadata and knowledge markup
Information extraction, automatic and semi-automatic generation of meta data.
Advanced string technology applications to Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications.
Mobile computing with application to biomedicine, for example cardiac arrhythmia.