The laboratory of biomedical informatics at SPIIRAS

The meaning of terms “bioinformatics”, “medical informatics”, “biomedical informat-ics” is discussed as applied to the latter’s goals, problems and methods. Justification is given to the definition of biomedical informatics that is in our opinion most complete. The milestones in the history of Russian biomedical informatics are listed as well as the main scientific schools within this line of investigation headed by Russia’s leading scientists. The article provides an examination of the activity of the laboratory of bio-medical informatics and the characteristics of solving the problems of biomedical in-formatics at SPIIRAS.