The Asia-Pacific regional perspective on bioinformatics

Author

Miyano, Satoru ; Ranganathan, Shoba

Author_Institution

Human Genome Centre, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

16

Issue

6

fYear

2001

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

61

Abstract

The Asia-Pacific region spans the Asian and Australasian continents as well as the Pacific-rim countries. As such, the seeds of bioinformatics in this region have been sown as early as 1989 in India, followed by Japan and Australia in 1991. While bioinformatics research, service, and education have reached laudable heights in these countries as well as in Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand and Russia, several other countries (Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines to name three) are making considerable progress. Following the success story of Japan, the status of bioinformatics in the Asia-Pacific region is presented.

Keywords

biology computing; government policies; research and development management; research initiatives; Asia-Pacific regional perspective; Asian continent; Australasian continents; Australia; India; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; New Zealand; Pacific-rim countries; Philippines; Russia; Singapore; Taiwan; Thailand; bioinformatics; bioinformatics education; bioinformatics research; Bioinformatics; Biology computing; Collaboration; Genomics; Government; Humans; Informatics; Organisms; Proteins; Sequences;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5254.972070

Filename

972070