More than $23 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health - courtesy of the NIH's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative - have …
Category: Data Sciences
Out of hiding: Found lurking in public databases, type-2 diabetes drug passes early test
Way too often, promising-looking basic-research findings - intriguing drug candidates, for example - go swooshing down the memory hole, and you never hear anything about …
Gamers: The new face of scientific research?
Much has been written about the lack of reproducibility of results claimed by even well-meaning, upright scientists. Notably, a 2005 PLoS paper (by Stanford health-research …
Stanford to launch Wellness Living Laboratory
If you’re the kind of person who wears a heart monitor while jogging, tracks your sleep with an app or meditates to lengthen your lifespan, …
Flies, worms and humans – and the modENCODE Project
It's a big day in comparative biology. Researchers around the country, including Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD, are publishing the results of a massive collaboration …
Stanford's Big Data in Biomedicine chronicled in tweets, photos and videos
At this year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, a crowd of close to 500 people gathered at Stanford to discuss how advances in computational processing …
Will hypothesis or data-driven research advance science? A Stanford biochemist weighs in
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on the Stanford …
Maternal obesity linked to earliest premature births, says Stanford study
Expectant mothers who are obese before they become pregnant are at increased risk of delivering a very premature baby, according to a new study of …
Discussing the importance of harnessing big data for global-health solutions
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and interviews with keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on …
Videos of Big Data in Biomedicine keynotes and panel discussions now available online
video platform video management video solutionsvideo player Computational processing power and interconnectedness are causing massive, ongoing advances in biomedical research and health care. But, as …
Ann Wojcicki discusses personalized medicine: "In the next 10 years everyone will have their genome"
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on the Stanford …
Stanford statistician Chiara Sabatti on teaching students to "ride the big data wave"
The 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference was held here last month, and keynote speakers, panelists, moderators and attendees are now available on the Stanford …
What computation tells us about how our bodies work
Last week, as the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference came to a close, a related story about the importance of computing across disciplines posted on the Stanford University homepage. …
Computing our evolution
Last week, as the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference came to a close, a related story about the importance of computing across disciplines posted on the Stanford University homepage. …
Learning how we learn to read
Last week, as the 2014 Big Data in Biomedicine conference came to a close, a related story about the importance of computing across disciplines posted on the Stanford …
Rising to the challenge of harnessing big data to benefit patients
Much has been written on Scope about the annual Big Data in Biomedicine conference, held here last week. My colleague Bruce Goldman was on the …