International Symposium on Biomedical Informatics in Europe

The discovery of the human genome sequence has evidenced the need for a strong collaborative effort between Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics. Up to now, these disciplines have followed separate evolution paths, however, if 'genomic medicine' is to become a reality a new integrated approach is required.

Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is the emerging discipline that aims to combine these fields and facilitate the discovery of novel prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic methods. The development of BMI has however found an obstacle in the traditional independence of both BI and MI, so a collaborative effort is needed to stimulate the crossing of boundaries, exchanging tools, practices and languages for mutual benefit.

INFOBIOMED and SEMANTIC MINING are two Networks of Excellence funded by the European Commission that have intensively worked in this area for the past few years, gathering a significant number of European experts in both BI and MI, and facilitating the development of BMI as integrative discipline.

Both networks co-organise the current symposium, which aims to serve as a forum to present the results obtained and discuss the current hot topics in Biomedical Informatics. The event is therefore expected to attract the most relevant actors and initiatives in the European BMI scenario. In that sense, it is to be remarked that the EU-funded projects EURESIST, ACGT and LOCCANDIA support the event as well.

The conference registration will be free, but attendants must complete and send the online registration form (http://www.infobiomed.net/symposium/registration.htm) before the 15th of May 2007.

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