Translational Bioinformatics Innovations
The American Medical Informatics Association defines translational bioinformatics as the development of storage, analytic and interpretive methods to optimize the transformation of increasingly voluminous genomic (proteomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, epigenomic, environs, interactomics, pharmacogenomic, phenomics) and biomedical data into proactive, predictive, preventive and participatory health. And in the past ten to fifteen years, bioinformaticians have largely devoted themselves to exactly these tasks: data analysis, library cataloging, database management, distribution specialization, and software engineering. While these tasks have well served certain translational needs, other new needs have evolved and the field continues to adapt to these needs, as well as define others. Currently, the transformation of huge volumes of complex data into clinically useful knowledge requires the convergence of molecular bioinformatics, biostatistics, statistical genetics, and clinical informatics into computational methods to establish a better/more practical, and accelerated path from discovery to improving patient care, and important discoveries for practical use. In other words, achieving these goals involves interdisciplinary collaboration and one that is essential to advancing translational genomics, similar to those used in large “big data” research projects. Translational medical research has emerged as an important theme in the last decade. Starting with top-down leadership from the National Institutes of Health and its former Director, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, and moving through academic medical centers, research institutes and industrial research and development efforts, there has been interesting in more effectively moving the discoveries and innovations in the laboratory to the bedside, leading to improved diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Citations are important for a journal to get impact factor. Impact factor is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. The impact of the journal is influenced by impact factor, the journals with high impact factor are considered more important than those with lower ones. To increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals PrimeOA Publications top online publishing journals are indexed in different indexing and archiving services.
Last Updated on: Nov 26, 2024