Title :
Information technology and computational biology in human reproduction technologies. Perspectives and bioethical issues for clinical practice
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Urology, St.-Louis Hosp., Paris, France
Abstract :
Information technology and computational biology applications in human reproduction represent a new growing area of basic and clinical research in reproductive sciences. Human assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are changing the clinical practice in male and female infertility therapeutic strategies, imposing new perspectives, but also specific bioethical issues for large-scale applications. ReproGen programs, based on bioinformatics and computational biology, must be proposed in order to evaluate the real impact of the genetic approaches (genomics and gene therapies) in human reproduction and fertility
Keywords :
biology computing; genetics; gynaecology; information technology; medical computing; patient treatment; professional aspects; ReproGen programs; assisted reproductive technologies; bioethical issues; bioinformatics; clinical practice; computational biology; female infertility; fertility; gene therapy; genetic approaches; genomics; human reproduction technologies; infertility therapeutic strategies; information technology; large-scale applications; male infertility; Bioinformatics; Biological system modeling; Computational biology; Genetics; Genomics; Humans; Information technology; Large-scale systems; Mathematical model; Proteomics;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6449-X
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2000.892361
