Infectious Disease Informatics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sintchenko, Vitali (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Health informatics.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Bioinformatics.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Health Informatics.

In this book, Vitali Sintchenko brings together a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of informatics applications aiming to improve the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases. In response to the need for computational biology techniques geared towards clinical medicin...

Table of Contents:

• Informatics for Infectious Disease Research and Control
• Bioinformatics of Microbial Sequences
• Mining Databases for Microbial Gene Sequences
• Comparative Genomics of Pathogens
• Systems Microbiology: Gaining Insights in Transcriptional Networks
• Host–Pathogen Systems Biology
• Text Mining for Discovery of Host–Pathogen Interactions
• A Network Approach to Understanding Pathogen Population Structure
• Computational Epitope Mapping
• Pangenomic Reverse Vaccinology
• Immunoinformatics: The Next Step in Vaccine Design
• Understanding the Shared Bacterial Genome
• Computational Grammars for Interrogation of Genomes
• In silico Discovery of Chemotherapeutic Agents
• Informatics for Healthcare Epidemiology
• Automated, High-throughput Surveillance Systems for Public Health
• Microbial Genotyping Systems for Infection Control
• Temporal and Spatial Clustering of Bacterial Genotypes
• Infectious Disease Ontology
• Populations, Patients, Germs and Genes: Ethics Of Genomics and Informatics in Communicable Disease Control.