IT Revolutions. First International ICST Conference, IT Revolutions 2008, Venice, Italy, December 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms for Tomorrow’s Patient Care

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03978-2_23,
        author={Sieu Phan and Fazel Famili and Ziying Liu and Lourdes Pe\`{o}a-Castillo},
        title={Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms for Tomorrow’s Patient Care},
        proceedings={IT Revolutions. First International ICST Conference, IT Revolutions 2008, Venice, Italy, December 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={IT REVOLUTIONS},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Information technology patient care},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03978-2_23}
    }
    
  • Sieu Phan
    Fazel Famili
    Ziying Liu
    Lourdes Peña-Castillo
    Year: 2012
    Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms for Tomorrow’s Patient Care
    IT REVOLUTIONS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03978-2_23
Sieu Phan1,*, Fazel Famili1,*, Ziying Liu1,*, Lourdes Peña-Castillo1,*
  • 1: National Research Council Canada
*Contact email: sieu.phan@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca, fazel.famili@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca, ziying.liu@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca, lourdes.pena-castillo@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Abstract

The advancement of omics technologies in concert with the enabling information technology development has accelerated biological research to a new realm in a blazing speed and sophistication. The limited single gene assay to the high throughput microarray assay and the laborious manual count of base-pairs to the robotic assisted machinery in genome sequencing are two examples to name. Yet even more sophisticated, the recent development in literature mining and artificial intelligence has allowed researchers to construct complex gene networks unraveling many formidable biological puzzles. To harness these emerging technologies to their full potential to medical applications, the Bio-intelligence program at the Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, aims to develop and exploit artificial intelligence and bioinformatics technologies to facilitate the development of intelligent decision support tools and systems to improve patient care - for early detection, accurate diagnosis/prognosis of disease, and better personalized therapeutic management.