BIOINFORMATICS

Biomedical and health informatics “has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of biomedical and health informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialties and disciplines, biomedical and health informatics has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that have set it apart from other disciplines and specialties” (http://www.amia.org/informatics/).

Biomedical informatics, which is often shortened to bioinformatics, more specifically refers to the use of computational techniques in the study of biology.  At the University of Wyoming, there are a number of research labs involved in using bioinformatics to study the basic building blocks of life in plants, animals, and humans.  For more information on these projects, click on the “Topic Resources” link in the column to the right.

For more information on bioinformatics, including links to Web sites and various other resources, click on the “Topic Resources” link in the column to the right.