Health and Biomedical Informatics

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Description:

LASIGE presents a longstanding record of research contributions in the area of Health & Biomedical Informatics, by providing innovative solutions for processing biological and medical data and for supporting the discovery of new biomedical insights. This research line aims to encompass all the scientific work in LASIGE where Informatics plays a fundamental role to the generation of new knowledge in Life and Health Sciences.

Targeted areas:

Bioinformatics
Chemoinformatics
Text Mining of Biomedical Literature and Multilingual Electronic Medical Records
Biomedical Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics
Semantic Web Technologies, Linked Data and Biomedical Ontologies
Health and Biomedical Decision Support systems
Technology adoption in health‐care
Ubiquitous health systems
Physiologic sensing and monitoring
Interaction Design for Healthcare
Biomedical Data Visualization, Media and Wellbeing
Storage and Protection of Large Biomedical Data
Biomedical Data Privacy

Leader:

Francisco Couto

Members

Research Line Members:

Name	Category
Alysson Bessani	Integrated Researcher
André Falcão	Integrated Researcher
Carlos Duarte	Integrated Researcher
Cátia Pesquita	Integrated Researcher
Francisco Couto	Integrated Researcher
João D. Ferreira	Integrated Researcher
Luís Carriço	Integrated Researcher
Manuel Fonseca	Integrated Researcher
Sara C. Madeira	Integrated Researcher
Teresa Chambel	Integrated Researcher
Tiago Guerreiro	Integrated Researcher
Muhammad Asif	PhD Collaborator
André Lamúrias	PhD Student
Catarina Pereira	PhD Student
Márcia Barros	PhD Student
Pedro Barbosa	PhD Student
Samina Kausar	PhD Student
Telma Pereira	PhD Student
Acácio Moreira	MSc Student
Ana Ilhéu	MSc Student
Carla Bernardino	MSc Student
David Teixeira	MSc Student
Diana Sousa	MSc Student
Fábio Martins	MSc Student
Filipe Galvão	MSc Student
Joana Matos	MSc Student
João Oliveira	MSc Student
Luís Ferreira	MSc Student
Madalena Guerra	MSc Student
Paulo S. Sousa	MSc Student
Pedro Carvalho	MSc Student
Pedro Ruas	MSc Student
Rita Sousa	MSc Student
Rodrigo Garrilha	MSc Student
Sílvia Martins	MSc Student
Sofia Jesus	MSc Student
Sofia Pires	MSc Student
Teresa Cunha	MSc Student
Vanessa Almeida	MSc Student
Vasco Serra	MSc Student
Manuel Figueiral	Collaborator
Sofia Teixeira	Collaborator

Software and Tools

Software and Tools:

Title	Short descritption
AgreementMakerLight	An automated and efficient ontology matching system derived from AgreementMaker that has been in development since the beginning of 2013
B3PP	A web application that interfaces a machine learning model designed to predict the Blood-Brain Barrier penetration properties
CESSM	An online tool for the automated evaluation of GO-based semantic similarity measures
CIDS	A user-friendly web tool that calculates different citation statistics
CMPSim	A web tool that implements a novel approach to measure the similarity between chemical compounds and metabolic pathays using semantic similarity
DNA Privacy Detector	A method that systematically detects privacy-sensitive DNA segments coming directly from an input stream
Epidemiology Ontology	Aims at increasing the amount of epidemiological data available, improving disease surveillance systems, and promoting the collaboration among epidemiological researchers
GIN 2.0	Devised to design primers within microbial species or genus as broad as possible, for PCR gene-screening projects
GRYFUN	Allows the visualization, filtering and subsequent analysis of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation profiles
JDNA	A referential compressor for aligned DNA files
Lusica	A project of automatic collection of music quotes of Lusophone artists from the social networks
Missinks	A web application that given a search query identifies the links in the first two pages of a given Google country search engine
NAMS	A free Webtool to calculate similarity between molecules based on the structural/topological relationships of each atom towards all the others within a molecule
O Mundo em Pessoa	A collaboration project with Sapo Labs for the celebration of the 125th year of birth of Fernando Pessoa
Onde e quem vai ver	An app that allow the user to browse, create and share the best events
ProteInOn	A web tool focused on calculating GO-based protein semantic similarity
Rankores	Allows users to vote on news thus helping with their validation and taking advantage of social networks by sharing news we validate
Therminfo	A cheminformatics system designed and built with two main objectives in mind: collecting and retrieving critically evaluated thermochemical values, and estimating new data

Publications

2017

Conference Paper

Rodrigues, M. J., & Couto F. M. (2017). MoRS at SemEval-2017 task 3: Easy to use SVM in ranking tasks. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017). 287–291.

Ferreira, F. L., Cardoso S., Silva D., Guerreiro M., de Mendonça A., & Madeira S. C. (2017). Improving Prognostic Prediction from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease Using Genetic Algorithms. International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. 180–188.

Lages, N. F., Caetano B., Fonseca M. J., Pereira J. D., Galhardas H., & Farinha R. (2017). Umedicine: A System for Clinical Practice Support and Data Analysis. VLDB Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare. 102–120.

Chambel, T., Kaiser R., Niamut O., & Ooi WT. (2017). AltMM 2017-2nd international workshop on multimedia alternate realities. 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017. 23 October 2017 through 27 October 2017, 1969-1970.

Couto, F. M., Campos L., & Lamurias A. (2017). MER: a minimal named-entity recognition tagger and annotation server. Proceedings of the BioCreative, Conference: BeCalm challenge evaluation workshop (Biocreative V.5), at Barcelona, Spain. 5,

Journal Article

Keller, A., Gerkin R. C., Guan Y., Dhurandhar A., Turu G., Szalai B., et al. (2017). Predicting human olfactory perception from chemical features of odor molecules. Science. eaal2014.

Duarte, C., Desart S., Costa D., & Dumas B. (2017). Designing Multimodal Mobile Interaction for a Text Messaging Application for Visually Impaired Users. Frontiers in ICT. 4, 26.

Ferreira, J. D., Inácio B., Salek R. M., & Couto F. M. (2017). Assessing Public Metabolomics Metadata, Towards Improving Quality. Journal of integrative bioinformatics. 14,

Coelho, J., Rito F., & Duarte C. (2017). “You, me & TV”—Fighting social isolation of older adults with Facebook, TV and multimodality. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 98, 38–50.

Nogueira, A., Casimiro A., & Bessani A. (2017). Elastic State Machine Replication. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

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