BIOM30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fitbit, Exposome, Market Research
Understand the basic principles and main applications of the discipline known as ‘health
and biomedical informatics’,
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Differentiate the main types of bioinformatics resources
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Manage the main catalogues of bioinformatics resources.
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Navigate through the main databases that provide reliable and real time information
about the molecular causes of gene-c diseases.
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Access, search and retrieve information from these databases both directly and through
the use of integrated search engines.
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Objectives
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Health and Biomedical Informatics
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Why Health and Biomedical Informatics? Modern healthcare and biomedical research are
information intensive activities
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Medical images and clinical records
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DNA sequencing, molecular data
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Literature and public databases
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Clinical trials, biobanks, GWAS,...
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Health care, biomedical research and public health are information intensive activities:
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New data types (extremely complex and heterogeneous) are being generated at an
unprecedented pace
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Background
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first decoded in 2003 after one decade of work
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nowadays takes one day
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Human Genome
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5000 biomedical research articles are published daily
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Over 22 mill articles
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PubMed
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Global size of “Big Data” in Healthcare stands at roughly 150 Exabytes (1018) in 2011,
increasing at a rate between 1.2 and 2.4 Exabytes per year. (SAS)
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Examples
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Rationale
2: Informatics: Current and future impact on individual
and population health
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
4:34 PM
Frontiers Page 1
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Frontiers Page 2
Human genome is not enough to cure disease (e.g. cancer) - must look at its interaction
with regulation, RNA, protein, metabolism, microbes, environment, and genetic
variability within one person (e.g. between tumour cells)
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People with the ability to combine ICT and biomedical skills and knowledge are in high
demand in Australia and around the world.
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A job market study from June 2012 showed that job posts in Health Informatics have
increased ten times faster than other health related jobs in recent years.
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Demand for specialised workforce
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Frontiers Page 3
Document Summary
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