Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include, but are not limited to:

• Systems biology

• Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics

• Genome-wide association studies

• Drug target discovery and personalized medicine

• Neuroscience and neuroinformatics

• Electronic patient records

• Patient monitoring

• Surgery planning and support

• Other relevant applications

Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology:

• Administration of vast amounts of data

• Integration of heterogeneous data sources

• Federated and distributed databases

• Data warehouses

• Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, etc.

• Decision support systems

• Information and image retrieval

• Signal processing and streaming databases

• Privacy protection and data security

• Data quality assurance

• Process management and collaborative work

• User interfaces and visualization

• Interoperability and standardization

• Other relevant applications