Difference between revisions of "Informatics"

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====<u>Humanistic</u>====
====<u>Humanistic</u>====


'''Educational science informatics'''
''Educational science informatics''
* [[Education informatics]]
* [[Education informatics]]


'''Library and information science informatics'''
''Library and information science informatics''
* [[Archival informatics]]
* [[Archival informatics]]
* [[Library informatics]]
* [[Library informatics]]


'''Social science informatics'''
''Social science informatics''
* [[Social informatics]]
* [[Social informatics]]


====<u>Natural</u>====
====<u>Natural</u>====


'''[[Chemical informatics]]'''
''[[Chemical informatics]]''
* [[Drug informatics]]
* [[Drug informatics]]
* [[Molecular informatics]]
* [[Molecular informatics]]


'''Earth science informatics'''
''Earth science informatics''
* [[Environmental informatics]]
* [[Environmental informatics]]
** [[Ecoinformatics]]
** [[Ecoinformatics]]
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** [[Irrigation informatics]]
** [[Irrigation informatics]]


'''[[Health informatics]]'''
''[[Health informatics]]''
* [[Consumer health informatics]]
* [[Consumer health informatics]]
* [[Disease informatics]]
* [[Disease informatics]]
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* [[Translational research informatics]]
* [[Translational research informatics]]


'''Life science informatics'''
''Life science informatics''
* [[Bioinformatics]]
* [[Bioinformatics]]
** [[Bioimage informatics]]
** [[Bioimage informatics]]
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** [[Neuroinformatics]]
** [[Neuroinformatics]]


'''Miscellaneous'''
''Miscellaneous''
* [[Engineering informatics]]
* [[Engineering informatics]]
* [[Laboratory informatics]]
* [[Laboratory informatics]]

Revision as of 21:35, 22 November 2011

The ambiguous word Informatics may refer to:

On the general topic of informatics

  • Informatics (academic field), an increasingly broad academic field encompassing the concepts, structure, algorithms, theories, and human behavior associated with information processing, accessing, and sharing

Subcategories of this general topic include:

  • Computer science, the study of complex systems, information and computation using applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and software engineering techniques
  • Information science, the study of the processing, management, and retrieval of information

Informatics as it relates to science

Humanistic

Educational science informatics

Library and information science informatics

Social science informatics

Natural

Chemical informatics

Earth science informatics

Health informatics

Life science informatics

Miscellaneous

Formal