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Nanoinformatics

Nanoinformatics is the science and practice of determining which information is relevant to the nanoscale science and engineering community, while developing and implementing effective mechanisms for collecting, validating, storing, sharing, analyzing, and applying that information. Nanoinformatics also involves the utilization of networked communication tools to launch and support efficient communities of practice. Nanoinformatics is necessary for intelligent development and comparative characterization of nanomaterials, for design and use of optimized nanodevices and nanosystems, and for development of advanced instrumentation and manufacturing processes. Nanoinformatics also fosters efficient scientific discovery and learning through data mining and machine learning techniques.

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A Roadmap for Nanoinformatics

A Nanoinformatics Roadmap will create a community-owned program for developing coordinated activities in multiple subdomains of nanotechnology that are both complementary and lead to community-wide standards and tools for ongoing research and development of nanotechnology.

Nanoinformatics 2010, November 3 - 5, 2010, was a key component of this overarching roadmapping project. Nanoinformatics 2010 was planned around the belief that cooperation between disciplines and organizations and the advancement of nanotechnology research and development can be facilitated through informatics efforts. Accordingly, organizers promoted the event widely and invited the participation of all stakeholders concerned with streamlining the nanotechnology data lifecycle and addressing the problem of sparse data in the multidimensional field of nanomaterials property information. Over 70 workshop participants attended the two-and-a-half day event. Workshop participants included research scientists from academic and government laboratories; informatics specialists; government and industry representatives; and leaders from existing nanoinformatics projects.

The Nanoinformatics 2010 Workshop was organized around three distinct but overlapping themes:

• Data Curation and Collection;
• Tools for Innovation, Analysis, and Simulation; and
• Data Accessibility and Information Sharing.

The program itself was designed to bring together diverse disciplinary-based approaches to the workshop themes; to showcase nanoinformatics tools and projects; to discuss challenges associated with each theme; and to enable the community to sketch out a path for addressing the grand challenges of nanotechnology through e-Science.

Nanoinformatics Bibliography: an effort to pull together all the literature relevant to nanoinformatics. If you are aware of references to be included, please create an account and contribute.