Establishing an agenda for biomedical informatics.
OBJECTIVE
To describe potential areas of collaboration between Medical Informatics (BI) and Bioinformatics (BI) and their effects on planning future work in both disciplines.


METHODS
Some reflections on the objectives and rationale underpinning MI and BI are given, and preliminary results from the BIOINFOMED workgroup, supported by the European Commission, are introduced.


RESULTS
Applications from both subfields suggest topics for sharing and exchange between the subfields within the emerging field of Biomedical Informatics.


CONCLUSIONS
We suggest how the nature and degree of collaboration between the sub-disciplines can impact future work in molecular medicine.
Maojo
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Medical Informatics Group, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain. vmaojo@fi.upm.es
Martin-Sanchez
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Billhardt
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Iakovidis
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Kulikowski
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D035843:Biomedical Research; D019295:Computational Biology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005060:Europe; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008967:Molecular Biology