Evolution of Nanomedicine, Bioinformatics and Grid computing in Medical Bibliographic Databases

GÓMEZ, ADRIÁN R.; BENÍTEZ, SONIA E.; OTERO, PAULA; SMITH, MARÍA I.; BAUM, ANALÍA J.; LUNA, DANIEL R.; GONZÁLEZ, B. DE QUIRÓS F.

Congreso; 13th World Congress on Health Informatics; 2010

Since the Human Genome Project establishment, the genomics "revolution" is spreading, giving another vision to the Bioin-formatics field. Medical advances have experienced progress due to the emergence of Nanomedicine. As data grows expo-nentially, novel biomedical approaches and tools, such as Grid Technologies, are needed to manage this kind of data. The objective is to describe how Nanomedicine, Bioinformat-ics and Grid Computing are represented in the medical bibli-ographic databases Medline. A search of text words such as Nanomedicine, Bioinformatics and Grid Computing was per-formed in the bibliographic reference database MEDLINE. On each category results were analyzed by number and cha-racteristics of obtained citations, MeSH terms included, Types of publications and periodicals, Language, Country of origin and Progress in number of citations per year. There is an ac-curate representation in MEDLINE of Nanomedicine and Bio-informatics, in contrast the lack of adequate MeSH terms that describe Grid Computing makes it difficult to specify the ex-tent of its domain, there is a need of proper representation of Grid-Computing in bibliographic databases.