Common medical bioinformatics databases

Author: Shang Tong
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The book is about the basic medical database of medical and health care. Medical bioinformatics is an emerging science formed by the interdisciplinary integration of medicine, biology, computer science, and information science. It collects, stores, organizes, calculates, and analyzes various medical and biological information, data, and resources, forming renewable assets to provide comprehensive support for the development of medical science. Data is the foundation of medical bioinformatics, and establishing a database centered on diseases, covering aspects such as pathology, pharmacology, genetics, proteins, and regulation, is the core of medical bioinformatics. This book focuses on medical bioinformatics databases, introducing nearly 100 well-known, reliable, and widely applicable biomedical databases or websites from domestic and international sources. It emphasizes the structure, content, resources, usage, and main features of these databases. The book is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 briefly introduces the basic concepts of medical bioinformatics; Chapter 2 mainly introduces several comprehensive medical bioinformatics databases; Chapters 3 and 4 focus on nucleic acid and protein-related databases; Chapters 5 and 6 mainly introduce several cell biology and microbiology databases; Chapters 7, 8, and 9 mainly introduce some clinical and pharmaceutical professional databases related to diseases. This book can serve as a reference for researchers and teaching staff in medicine, biology, computer science, and information science engaged in scientific research, teaching, medical care, and development.