Biomedical Informatics

From XLDB

Biomedical Informatics is one of the newest research lines of LASIGE, where the XLDB Team is committed on several ongoing research projects and academic programmes (Master in Biomedical Informatics at FCUL).

The research focus straddles Informatics and the following topics: Text/Graph Mining (sources: Bioliterature, Protein Interactions, Sequences); Biomedical Ontologies Applications; Clinical Informatics; Therapy support; Biomedical information retrieval; Semantic searches bridging the gap between the medical jargon and everyday language; E-learning (education & training) in Health; Privacy preservation and access control; Epidemiological data collection & integration; Decision Support

A list of short presentations made by the post-graduate students at May, 2011: Handouts

LASIGE is a General Member of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excelence.

Contents 1 Team 2 Active Projects 3 Ongoing Activities 4 Past Projects and Activities

Team

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• Faculty: Francisco Couto (head), André Falcão, Cátia Pesquita
• Post-doctoral Researchers: Daniel Faria
• Doctoral Researchers: Ana Teixeira, Cátia Machado, Hugo Bastos, Tiago Grego, João D Ferreira, João Zamite
• Master Students: Bruno Tavares, Inês Martins, Manuela Cardoso, Rony Reis, Sara Cardoso
• Collaborators: Mário J. Silva
• Past-Members: Luís Filipe Lopes

Active Projects

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AEB 

Automated Extension of BioOntologies

ASSUME

Data mining methods for ASessing Similarity of molecular structUres in MEtric spaces

CoherenZy 

Methods for Carbohydrate Enzyme Family Coherency Assessment

EPIWork 

Developing the framework for an epidemic forecast infrastructure

FiBRE 

Filtering Bioentity Recognition Errors

HCM 

Integration and exploration of clinical and biological data about the disease Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

ThermInfo 

Collecting, Retrieving, and Estimating Reliable Thermochemical Data

SABO 

Semantic similarity across biomedical ontologies (VPH-NoE)

SOMER 

Semantic Ontology Matching using External Resources

Ongoing Activities

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BOA 

Biomedical Ontologies Applications

ISPD 

Information Systems for Pulmonary Diseases

Past Projects and Activities

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The following research projects have ended:

• ARN - Algorithms for the identification of genetic Regulatory Networks
• Peptides - Peptidic programs for protein classification
• ReBIL - Correlating enzyme sequences with their activity based on biological literature.