Abstract

FEBLES RODRIGUEZ, Juan Pedro  and  GONZALEZ PEREZ, Abel. Aplicación de la minería de datos en la bioinformática. ACIMED [online]. 2002, vol.10, n.2, pp.69-76. ISSN 1024-9435.

An extraordinary advance of the biomedical sciences will take place in the next years as a result of the Human Genome project. The new technologies based on the molecular genetics and informatics are key factors for this development, since they provide powerful tools for the obtention and analysis of genetic information. The appearance of new technologies has made possible the development of genomics, on making possible the study of the interactions of genes and their influence on the development of diseases. All this influences on the clinical diagnosis, the investigation of new drugs epidemiology and medical informatics. In the last years, data mining has experienced an increase as a support for the phylosophies of information management and knowledge, as well as for the discovery of the meaning of the data stored in big banks. This allows to explore and analyze the databases available to help in the decision-making process and it also facilitates the extraction of the information existing in the texts and to create smart systems capable of understanding them. This is commonly known as text mining. The basic components of data mining and its application to an emerging and trascendent scientifc activity, bioinformatics, are synthetically described.

Keywords : COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; DATABASES; DECISIÓN MAKING.