How Can Data Mining Help Bio-Data Analysis?

Recent progress in data mining research has led to the development of numerous efficient and scalable methods for mining interesting patterns in large databases. In the mean time, recent progress in biology, medical science, and DNA technology has led to the accumulation of tremendous amounts of bio-medical data that demands for in-depth analysis. The question becomes how to bridge the two fields, data mining and bioinformatics, for successful mining of bio-medical data. In this abstract, we analyze how data mining may help bio-medical data analysis and outline some research problems that may motivate the further developments of data mining tools for bio-data analysis.