COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a multi-module, lecture series with new modules available each week. This Board prep provides exposure to topics on the clinical informatics subspeciality board examination. Lectures highlight relevant informatics and information science principles and methodology. COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student is able to: Discuss advances in medical research & […]
PanViz: Interactive Visualization of the Structure of Functionally Annotated Pangenomes
Bioinformatics. 2017 Jan 5. pii: btw761. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw761. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28057677 Pedersen TL, Nookaew I, Wayne Ussery D, Månsson M. Summary PanViz is a novel, interactive, visualization tool for pangenome analysis. PanViz allows visualization of changes in gene group (groups of similar genes across genomes) classification as different subsets of pangenomes […]
Showcase Highlights Power of Biomedical Informatics
Researchers from all disciplines can put the power of biomedical informatics to work for them, and the results of that collaborative spirit were on display at a recent reception at UAMS. Fourteen research projects were featured at the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Biomedical Informatics Research, held Sept. 21 at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer […]
UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for NCI
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages to all […]
Fred Prior, Ph.D, named inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
LITTLE ROCK — Fred Prior, Ph.D, has been named the inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. The newly established department develops computational tools to assess and manage medical and public health information for patient care and research programs. […]