tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post7042342097493712325..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Has Bioinformatics Hit A Hard Wall of Stagnation?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-59429863978919287022010-06-14T15:58:41.236-04:002010-06-14T15:58:41.236-04:00Anonymous December 14, 2009 8:11:00 PM EST writes:...Anonymous December 14, 2009 8:11:00 PM EST writes:<br /><br /><i>I don't discount that medical informatics is important in fact I think it's vital but to me this seems like you're just attacking bioinformatics and wringing your hands over medical informatics as the unpopular little brother</i><br /><br />Let me see. So you understand medical informatics is vital but I'm merely InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-36317648599406402082009-12-14T20:11:42.517-05:002009-12-14T20:11:42.517-05:00Quite frankly this entire blog post sounds like a ...Quite frankly this entire blog post sounds like a whine about how bioinformatics is popular and no one cares about medical informatics. One of your quotes mentions how they think it strange that bioinformatics hasn't produced some wonderdrugs and miracles for us now and I think that's entirely unfair to bioinformatics. Bioinformatics has solved a number of problems in biology. At this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-36241682594407226382009-01-08T16:00:00.000-05:002009-01-08T16:00:00.000-05:00Dr. Who wrote:I am a doctor (MD) by training. I'm ...Dr. Who wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>I am a doctor (MD) by training. I'm currently majoring also in Applied Mathematics. </I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for the long post. Very interesting insights.<BR/><BR/><I>Sadly, I've realized the field is all about algorithms nowadays.</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed. Read <A HREF="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-on-why-pharma-fails.html" REL="nofollow">this post</A> as an InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-51025063302970864002009-01-08T10:05:00.000-05:002009-01-08T10:05:00.000-05:00Hi --I am a doctor (MD) by training. I'm currently...Hi --<BR/><BR/>I am a doctor (MD) by training. I'm currently majoring also in Applied Mathematics. <BR/><BR/>I started out in Applied Mathematics out of my enthusiasm for bioinformatics. Then I realized, much to my dismay, that the field was completely inundated by computer-science types who understood very little of what they were doing. I've seen things in congress that simply don't make sense Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-41058313860073484922009-01-08T09:26:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:26:00.000-05:00shevegen wrote:All aspects of "BioInformatics" as ...shevegen wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>All aspects of "BioInformatics" as a field should attempt to HELP researcher instead of GUIDING them.</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, consider one's self <B>facilitators</B> instead of <B>enablers</B>. Problem is, seems too many bioinformatics dept. heads (in industry) and professors (in academia) think they will cure the world's diseases in silico without involvement of clinical InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-65729773279508263532009-01-08T09:18:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:18:00.000-05:00Pedro Beltrão wrote:I think it is clear that medic...Pedro Beltrão wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>I think it is clear that medical informatics is an important field and I never heard otherwise</I><BR/><BR/>Yet most pharmas and biotechs lack medical informatics professionals. Curious. Perhaps it's a problem of management (or, should I say, mismanagement) at high levels.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the Stein link.<BR/><BR/>-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-45119816082524621042009-01-08T07:38:00.000-05:002009-01-08T07:38:00.000-05:00The way I see it, the problem is twofold, or manif...The way I see it, the problem is twofold, or manifold.<BR/><BR/>Years ago when I digged into bioinformatics I was really really disappointed to realize that almost _everything_ there involved maths and algorithms. I was never the person to feel tremendous joy in finding better algorithms or the faster way to accurate BLAST results, or similar tools.<BR/><BR/>Lateron with the advent of system shevyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09636171104216432368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-38437568442881451622009-01-08T00:13:00.000-05:002009-01-08T00:13:00.000-05:00I think it is clear that medical informatics is an...I think it is clear that medical informatics is an important field and I never heard otherwise. Regarding you comment about bioinformatics becoming stagnant I don't see any proof of that. Has Lincoln Stein recently put it (http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/12/114), bioinformatics is alive and kicking. Regarding also the lack of medical relevant research in bioinformatics just have a look at the anyPedro Beltraohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12177733941831975048noreply@blogger.com