Affiliations: Centre for Medical Informatics, Division of Science
and Design, University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia | Autoimmunity Research Unit, The Canberra Hospital,
Woden ACT 2606, Australia | Biomedical Knowledge Discovery Team, Bioinformatics
Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama 230-0045, Japan | Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng
Terrace, Singapore 119613
Abstract: Novartis Foundation sponsored a Symposium which brought together a
group of experimental immunologists, theoretical immunologists, and
bioinformaticians to discuss the new field of immunoinformatics. The discussion
focused on immunological databases, antigen processing and presentation,
immunogenomics, host-pathogen interactions, and mathematical modelling of the
immune system. A main conclusion of the meeting is the critical role played by
immunoinformatics in current immunology research. In particular,
immunoinformatics provides a foundation for the emerging fields of systems
immunology and immunogenomics.
