INFORMATICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does informatics mean? 

• INFORMATICS (noun)
  The noun INFORMATICS has 1 sense:

1. the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

  Familiarity information: INFORMATICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMATICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

informatics; information processing; information science; IP

Hypernyms ("informatics" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "informatics"):

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Domain member category:

queue ((information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "informatics"):

human language technology; natural language processing; NLP (the branch of information science that deals with natural language information)

cybernetics ((biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems))

 Context examples 

The CBRG also supports the development of databases and informatics systems to optimize tracking and assessment of biomarker utility and expression patterns.

(Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Includes 8 centers and an informatics and information technology group.

(Cancer Genetics Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Informatics nursing practice includes the development, support, and evaluation of applications, tools, processes, and structures that assist the practice of nurses with the management of data in direct care of patients/clients.

(Informatics Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

The application of informatics methods to manage nursing information and improve healthcare.

(Nursing Informatics, NCI Thesaurus)

Other Informatics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with types of informatics support that are not listed as provided by other informatics shared resources.

(Other Informatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The application of informatics methods to manage medical information and improve healthcare.

(Clinical Informatics, NCI Thesaurus)

Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing branch of biology and is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and concepts from informatics, statistics, mathematics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and linguistics.

(Bioinformatics, NCI Thesaurus)

Biological study that combines traditional techniques with computer analysis; an intersection of computational biology and biomedical informatics.

(Biomedical Computing, NCI Thesaurus)

An NCICB informatics project consisting of a microarray database and microarray data analysis and visualization tools.

(caArray, NCI Thesaurus)

A comprehensive, collaborative infrastructure, linked to an informatics structure, to help speed the genetic and epidemiologic study of heritable cancers.

(Cooperative Family Registry, NCI Thesaurus)