Summary
Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on cancer informatics published in
2017.
Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar, and manual review was conducted
to identify the scientific contributions published in 2017 that address topics in
cancer informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate
best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers
from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and
(iii) the final selection of three best papers was conducted by the editorial board
of the Yearbook.
Results: Results: The three selected best papers present studies addressing many facets of
cancer informatics, with immediate applicability in the research and clinical domains.
Conclusion: Cancer informatics is a broad and vigorous subfield of biomedical informatics. Strides
in knowledge management, crowdsourcing, and visualization are especially notable in
2017.
Keywords
Neoplasms - informatics - health information technology - genomics - data visualization
