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Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine
Over a decade ago, nanotechnologists began research on applications of nanomaterials for medicine. This research has revealed a wide range of different challenges, as well as many opportunities. Some of these challenges are strongly related to informatics issues, dealing, for instance, with the mana...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866003 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S24582 |
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author | Maojo, Victor Fritts, Martin de la Iglesia, Diana Cachau, Raul E Garcia-Remesal, Miguel Mitchell, Joyce A Kulikowski, Casimir |
author_facet | Maojo, Victor Fritts, Martin de la Iglesia, Diana Cachau, Raul E Garcia-Remesal, Miguel Mitchell, Joyce A Kulikowski, Casimir |
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description | Over a decade ago, nanotechnologists began research on applications of nanomaterials for medicine. This research has revealed a wide range of different challenges, as well as many opportunities. Some of these challenges are strongly related to informatics issues, dealing, for instance, with the management and integration of heterogeneous information, defining nomenclatures, taxonomies and classifications for various types of nanomaterials, and research on new modeling and simulation techniques for nanoparticles. Nanoinformatics has recently emerged in the USA and Europe to address these issues. In this paper, we present a review of nanoinformatics, describing its origins, the problems it addresses, areas of interest, and examples of current research initiatives and informatics resources. We suggest that nanoinformatics could accelerate research and development in nanomedicine, as has occurred in the past in other fields. For instance, biomedical informatics served as a fundamental catalyst for the Human Genome Project, and other genomic and –omics projects, as well as the translational efforts that link resulting molecular-level research to clinical problems and findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-34106932012-08-03 Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine Maojo, Victor Fritts, Martin de la Iglesia, Diana Cachau, Raul E Garcia-Remesal, Miguel Mitchell, Joyce A Kulikowski, Casimir Int J Nanomedicine Review Over a decade ago, nanotechnologists began research on applications of nanomaterials for medicine. This research has revealed a wide range of different challenges, as well as many opportunities. Some of these challenges are strongly related to informatics issues, dealing, for instance, with the management and integration of heterogeneous information, defining nomenclatures, taxonomies and classifications for various types of nanomaterials, and research on new modeling and simulation techniques for nanoparticles. Nanoinformatics has recently emerged in the USA and Europe to address these issues. In this paper, we present a review of nanoinformatics, describing its origins, the problems it addresses, areas of interest, and examples of current research initiatives and informatics resources. We suggest that nanoinformatics could accelerate research and development in nanomedicine, as has occurred in the past in other fields. For instance, biomedical informatics served as a fundamental catalyst for the Human Genome Project, and other genomic and –omics projects, as well as the translational efforts that link resulting molecular-level research to clinical problems and findings. Dove Medical Press 2012 2012-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3410693/ /pubmed/22866003 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S24582 Text en © 2012 Maojo et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd. This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Maojo, Victor Fritts, Martin de la Iglesia, Diana Cachau, Raul E Garcia-Remesal, Miguel Mitchell, Joyce A Kulikowski, Casimir Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title | Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title_full | Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title_fullStr | Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title_full_unstemmed | Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title_short | Nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
title_sort | nanoinformatics: a new area of research in nanomedicine |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866003 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S24582 |
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