Integrated informatics support of scientific research
(beyond the Office and Google)
János Karsai
Department of Medical Physics and Medical Informatics
University of Szeged
What is a scientific work as a process?
Reading, search of information
Planning
Experiments
Thinking
Data processing and evaluation
Modeling, parameter identification
The same process from technical point of view:
Scientific writing! Concerns everything.
Collecting information: web browsers, scientific databases, knowledge bases
Collecting and transfer data
Data processing, Data mining: Database manipulations, Transformations, Visualization
Evaluation: Statistical and mathematical methods
Modeling: Fitting, Qualitative mathematical methods
Formal and numerical calculations and operations
Visualization (static and dynamic - realtime)
Collecting Scientific Information, data
Web Enciclopedies
Wikipedia : http : // www.wikipedia.org/...
Search portals
Google: www.google.com
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
Web of Science, Science Direct, ...
Field-Specific Scentific Databases
Integrated portals (Meta-enginges):
Wolfram Alpha: www.wolframalpha.com
Wolfram Alpha
Examples
An integrated research - educational - publication
environment: Mathematica
Some applications before the details
Simple Demonstrations from http://demonstrations.wolfram.com
Complete interactive papers, books
See the E - books on. www.model.u-szeged.hu
Structured interactive publication platform with scientific (math, chemistry, ...) document processing
Interactive scientific document processing
Online data collection + calculations + visualization + documentation
Full set of scientific symbols
Document structures
stylesheets
automatic numbering
hyperlink
Import-export: web, pdf, TeX, XML, ...
Scientific calculations: Special scientific programming language
Mathematical symbols
Effective data-handling
Intelligent structure operations,
Rule based programming (like in artificial intelligence)
Manipulations over functions and expressions
Symbolical and numerical operations
Boole - operations
Dynamic operations, interactivity
Export - import : data, images, sound, ....
Parallel programminG
Interactive, dynamic visualization
Data
Functions
Structures
Sound
Images
Molecules
Maps
....
Using knowledge bases
Mathematics
Scientific - technical databases
Example: Chemistry, more than 30000 molecules
Geographic data bases
Economy
....
Getting started with computable scientific writing
Fundamentals
User interface
formulas, setting
equations
functions
graphics
dynamic operations
HELP - system!!!
An advanced level
Object structures
Rules, patterns
Structure operations
"Prohibited" : For, Do, If ....
Instead : F(a_) -> G(a), Map, Apply, Thread, Nest
Applications
Study the phenomenon of drug elimination in the case of extravascular dosing
Fit the model to experimental data
Some resources:
Books and teaching materials on www.model.u - szeged.hu
More resources
http://www.wolfram.com
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com
http://www.wolframalpha.com
Thanks and Happy Modeling
