Recent Trends in Computational Biomedical Research

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in information technology have brought forth a paradigm shift in science, especially in the biology and medical fields. Statistical methodologies based on high-performance computing and big data analysis are now indispensable for the qualitative and quantitative understanding of experimental results. In fact, the last few decades have witnessed drastic improvements in high-throughput experiments in health science, for example, mass spectrometry, DNA microarray, next-generation sequencing, etc. Those methods have been providing massive data involving four major branches of omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics). On the other hand, cell imaging, clinical imaging, and personal healthcare devices are also providing important data concerning the human body and disease. In parallel, various methods of mathematical modeling based on machine learning including auto-encoder-based deep neural networks have developed rapidly. All of these data types can be utilized in computational approaches for biomedical research such as on understanding disease mechanisms, diagnosis, prognosis, drug discovery, drug repositioning, disease biomarkers, driver mutations, copy number variations, disease pathways, medical imaging, and much more.

The first volume of this Special Issue was a great success (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/special_issues/computational_diseases). Now, we invite you to publish in the second volume.

In this Special Issue, we are inviting papers on novel models, methods, algorithms, and important innovations concerning computational biomedical research.

Dr. Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin
Prof. Dr. Shigehiko Kanaya
Dr. Naoaki Ono
Dr. Ming Huang
Guest Editors

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