Infectious Disease Informatics

In this book, Vitali Sintchenko brings together a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of informatics application aiming to improve the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases. In response to the need for computational biology techniques geared towards clinical medicine, this volume covers the emerging domains of translational bioinformatics, genomics enabled decision support, intelligent design of vaccines and antimicrobial drugs as well as new types of biosurveillance. This book is written by a diverse, international group of experts in the field and provides clinicians, pathologists, bio-medical researchers and informaticians with an essential resource that offers also a fascinating glimpse into the future of this dynamic field.