Informatics
Informatics at PNNL involves the research, development, and application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of data, including:
- Handling, storing, and capturing large amounts of data
- Discovering variable correlations
- Reducing dimensionality representation
- Variable selection
- Detecting anomalies
- Modeling classes of compounds
Informatics provides a computational framework for capturing and sharing information not only within scientific communities, but also among industry – and specifically to chemical and material sciences.
The underlying similarities between bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and materials informatics involve
- Understanding information relationship fundamentals
- Data/information at multiple levels of abstraction
- Human judgment on final answer
- Science data largely heterogeneous – low to high uncertainty
- Information defined by collections of unresolved data.
For more specific information about informatics at PNNL, visit Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, and Computational Materials Sciences.
Contact:TP Straatsma