Dear all,
I am a Graduate Student doing MS in Bioinformatics at IUPUI
(Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Indianapolis). I am working as Research
Assistant in Purdue Comp Sci Dept.
I have some experience with Web Development, Java, Information
Filtering, Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Distributed
Computing. I am also a born biologist.
Right now I have decided to do a study on the following topic
"Informatics Approach for Cancer". (I would like to develop a
comprehensive tool or application which would be helpful for
stakeholders in Cancer)
I searched the internet over past weeks continously and got quite a
bulk of information on this topic. I found that most of the
information on cancer are scattered, repeated and badly distributed.
I would like to hear from the stakeholders (Scientists, Doctors,
Nurses, Medical Students, Patients ...) about their real information
need.
If you are one of them, please answer these questions.
1 How you are getting the "needed" information (Scientific Papers,
NCBI Databases, Lab Notebooks...) now?
2 What would be an ideal informatics solution?
3 Are you using any such system right now (other than library and
search engines)?
4 How much time and energy you are spending on collecting information?
5 Are you missing information (say an important research article)
using your current methods?
6 Will you be willing to pay a small amount if you are able to get
customized information anywhere at anytime?
7 What are other questions that I should ask?
8 Any other opinion or comments?
9 Do you know anyone working on a similar or closely related project?
If so please give their contact
Thanks in advance!!!
Cheers and Happy 2002,
--Vj
Vijay Narayanasamy
vj_iupui at yahoo.com
