Overview
The Division of Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation focuses on computational approaches to problems in biomedical research. Our mission is to provide the core competencies, methods and technologies that are necessary for the acquisition, storage and analysis of biomedical data using high performance computational systems. In addition to conducting basic research, we offer resources and services to investigators at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Visit our Research IT Services web site to learn more about resources and services available to Cincinnati Children's and UC investigators, including:
- Research data storage
- Web and database hosting
- Cluster computing
- Research data warehouse
- Clinical and translational research support
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Our faculty are involved in a number of scientific initiatives, including:
- Analyzing biological systems in health and disease, focusing on the comparative genomics of gene regulation, evolution and polymorphism
- Developing novel methods for protein structure and function prediction
- Analyzing and mining proteomic data with machine learning approaches
- Integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolics data with medical domains
- Using natural language processing to analyze unstructured medical information
- Developing Bayesian hierarchical models for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning from diverse data types
Our labs offer collaborative assistance in several areas including genomic sequence analysis, microarray data analysis, biological networks discovery and natural language processing.
Our faculty are active members of the graduate program in bioinformatics offered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. We also sponsor a a weekly journal club devoted to advanced topics in bioinformatics, and offer training for software developed and supported by the division.
For more information about the Division of Biomedical Informatics, contact John Hutton, MD, director, 513-636-2051. To get contact information for individual faculty and staff, see our division directory.
