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The stunning convergence of information
technology and life sciences research is transforming the landscape of the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare industries, signaling the
arrival of personalized and molecular medicine, and changing the future
practice of bioscience discovery and patient care. One of the biggest
challenges facing computing, life sciences, and biomedical researchers
today is how to collect, process, integrate, manage, and interpret the
massive quantities of heterogeneous biological, chemical, imaging, assay,
clinical and cognitive data exploding out of rapid advances made in
biotechnology and imaging during the past few decades, while simultaneously
taking advantage of myriad new targets and technologies for improving human
health, enhancing efficacy and tolerance to pharmaceutical compounds,
increasing the chances of successful clinical trials and patient outcomes,
and accelerating fundamental scientific discovery via high throughput and
high content analytic technology.
The CASS community has its role to play in this
exciting new area. Many leading IT and computing companies
have already signaled their commitment by providing supercomputers and
databases to store and analyze huge volumes of genomic, proteomic, metabonomic, physiomic, imaging, and other phenotypic data generated in
life sciences. Countless other firms around the world are developing a
dazzling array of hardware and software technologies to spur biomedical
research, achieve large-scale test automation, and expedite drug
discovery. The convergence of information technology and the life sciences
will create a new professional community and discipline, namely, Life
Science-IT, with unique information needs. The purpose of this technical
committee aims to provide a forum to stimulate and promote the interaction
and information sharing of information scientists, systems designers, bioinformaticians,
computational biologists, imaging scientists and biomedical researchers who
are interested in contributing the research and development of this new
profession and discipline.
Never before has the merger between
engineering and medicine been so strong and the CAS Society believes it can
make a major contribution to the interdisciplinary glue bonding the two
disciplines.
For other details, please consult the LSSA TC
Bylaws.
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1. Conferences and Workshops
- 2004 IEEE Workshop on Life
Science Data Mining, co-located with IEEE ICDM 2004 in Nov. 1, 2004,
Brighton, UK.
- ISCAS 2005:
Life Science Systems and Applications Track, Kobe, Japan, 5/23-5/26, 2005
- IEEE/NLM Life Science Systems and Application Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, July 13-14 2006
2. Invitation Workshops
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