Informatics (disambiguation)
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- Note: Informatics is separate and distinct from Informetrics.
Informatics, broad academic field encompassing information management and computing technologies, including applications in science, social science, and the arts
Informatics also refers to:
Subfields
- Biodiversity informatics
- Business informatics
- Cheminformatics
- Community informatics
- Computational informatics
- Development informatics
- Disease informatics
- Ecoinformatics
- Education informatics
- Energy informatics
- Engineering Informatics, interdisciplinary field combining information technology (IT) and engineering concepts
- Environmental informatics
- Evolutionary informatics
- Forest informatics
- Geoinformatics, interdisciplinary field that uses information infrastructure to address problems of geography and geosciences.
- Health informatics
- Hydroinformatics
- Irrigation informatics
- Laboratory informatics
- Legal informatics
- Materials informatics
- Medical informatics
- Music informatics
- Neuroinformatics
- Pervasive Informatics
- Social informatics
- Technical informatics
- Translational research informatics
Computer and information science
- Computing, any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers
- Computer science, theoretical study of algorithms, information and computation
- Information science, interdisciplinary study of the processing, management, and retrieval of information
- Informatics engineering
- Information technology, study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems
Other uses
- Informatics Europe, association for European PhD granting computer and information science departments
- Informatics (software company), software company formed as subsidiary of Dataproducts in 1962
- Informatics, quarterly e-Governance publication from National Informatics Center