Life Sciences Research
Overview
The Indiana University School of Informatics has dynamic, innovative programs in bioinformatics and chemical informatics at both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. In addition, IUPUI has graduate programs in laboratory informatics and health informatics and a developing medical informatics program, as well as a B.S. program in health information administration. It is anticipated that the School of Informatics will play an even more significant research role in the life sciences with the initiation of the Ph.D. program in informatics.
Areas of research in bioinformatics and chemical informatics include sequence pattern recognition, comparative genomics, structural genomics, fragment assembly in DNA sequencing, systems biology, models of evolution, molecular modeling and drug design, computational chemistry, industrial catalyst design, 2D and 3D chemical structure coding and searching systems, analysis of data from high throughput screening and combinatorial chemistry libraries, cluster and grid computing for chemical informatics, advanced chemical descriptors, and design of cheminformatics software.
Laboratory informatics focuses on data acquisition, data processing, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), laboratory automation, scientific data management (including data analysis and long-term archiving), and electronic laboratory notebooks.
Health-related informatics programs conduct research into computerized medical records systems, including Web-based clinical entry systems.
Faculty Involved
The following faculty are involved in life sciences research at the School of Informatics.
IUB
- Alessandro Flammini (Bioinformatics)
- Mu-Hyun Baik (Chemical Informatics)
- Mehmet Dalkilic (Bioinformatics)
- Matthew Hahn (Bioinformatics)
- Luis Rocha (Bioinformatics)
- Sun Kim (Bioinformatics)
- Predrag Radivojac (Bioinformatics)
- Santiago Schnell (Bioinformatics, Chemical Informatics)
- Haixu Tang (Bioinformatics)
- David Wild (Chemical Informatics)
IUPUI
- Jake Yue Chen (Bioinformatics)
- A. Keith Dunker (Bioinformatics)
- Ariel Fernandez (Bioinformatics)
- Danita Forgey (Health Information Administration)
- Jeffrey Huang (Bioinformatics)
- Josette Jones (Health Informatics)
- Malika Mahoui (Bioinformatics)
- Anna McDaniel (Health Informatics)
- Mahesh Merchant (Laboratory Informatics)
- Sam A.F. Milosevich (Chemical Informatics)
- Nicole Mineo (Health Information Administration)
- Snehasis Mukhopadhyay (Bioinformatics)
- Douglas Perry (Laboratory Informatics)
- Narayan Perumal (Bioinformatics)
- Pedro Romero (Bioinformatics)
- Gunther Schadow (Medical Informatics)
- Ruth Walker (Health Information Administration)
Adjunct Faculty (IUB and IUPUI)
- Dimitris Agrafiotis (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
- John Barnard (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
- Zina Ben-Miled (Bioinformatics, IUPUI)
- Peter Cherbas (Bioinformatics, IUB)
- David Clemmer (Chemical Informatics)
- Thompson N. Doman (Chemical Informatics, IUPUI)
- Donna Gannaway (Health Information Adminstration, IUPUI)
- James Glazier (Bioinformatics, IUB)
- Gary Hieftje (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
- James Hogan (Health Information Administration, IUPUI)
- John Huffman (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
- Sue A. Olson (Bioinformatics, IUB)
- Peter Ortoleva (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
- Gary Wiggins (Chemical Informatics, IUB)
More Information
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