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Published:
Journal of Analytical Toxicology,
ISSN 0146-4760,
Volume 25, Number 5, July/August, pp. 386-389
Informatics
and Scientific Information Exchange in Forensic Toxicology
R.E.
Gaensslen
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Forensic Science, College of
Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
I want to thank Dr. Steven Wong and the organizers of SOFT 2000
for the opportunity to speak to this large and distinguished group of forensic
scientists.
Although I am uncertain that I am qualified to speak knowledgably
on both these topics, I have had some experience as the Editor of the Journal
of Forensic Sciences in the area of scientific information exchange involving
forensic scientists. And, I come from the only academic forensic science program
in the country located within a College of Pharmacy, so even though I think
of myself primarily as a criminalist, I have more exposure to some of the issues
of interest to forensic toxicologists than many other academic people.
After considering what I might say to you on these two subjects,
I have concluded that both of them are likely to play an important role as “30
years of forensic toxicology [is launched into] the new millennium”. We
will first consider how bioinformatics might have an impact on toxicology and
even forensic toxicology.
Then, we have to realize that the traditional mechanisms and delivery
systems of information exchange are rapidly being replaced by new ones, much
faster than the old ones, and ask whether accuracy and rigor can be maintained
and be recognizable in the information blizzard of the Internet age.
Let us consider informatics first.
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