Researchers at the School of Medicine and Oxford University are currently developing ways to mine the vast amounts of biomedical data housed in public databases …
Category: Big data
Big data = big finds: Clinical trial for deadly lung cancer launched by Stanford study
My colleague Bruce Goldman has written elegantly here before about how large biological databases (a phenomenon commonly known as "big data") are a treasure trove …
Big Data in Biomedicine videos now available online
Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player Euan Ashley on Bigger Data from Genetics and Genomics At the Big Data in Biomedicine conference …
International alliance launches effort to enable secure sharing of genomic and clinical data
The cost of genome sequencing has fallen dramatically in the last decade, ushering in a new era of personalized medicine and promising to yield more …
Capturing Big Data in Biomedicine in tweets, photos and blog posts
Last week, an energetic crowd of roughly 300 gathered for the Big Data in Biomedicine Conference at Stanford to hear from more than 40 speakers about …
Big laughs at Stanford's Big Data in Biomedicine Conference
Last week's high-powered Big Data in Biomedicine Conference, held on Stanford's campus, featured more than 40 speakers and several hundred participants grappling with the massive challenges …
Stanford researchers use data mining to show safety of peripheral artery disease treatment
Every day, doctors across the country take down reams of information about their patients. Those notes are a treasure trove of information about preventive treatments, …
A call to use the "tsunami of biomedical data" to preserve life and enhance health
Yesterday marked the start of the Big Data in Biomedicine Conference at Stanford, and Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, was one of the first to address the audience …
Live tweeting Big Data in Biomedicine conference
This afternoon, leading figures from academia, industry, government and philanthropic foundations will gather at the Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford to explore the …
Big Data in Biomedicine conference opens this week
The Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off at Stanford this week. The event, which will be held at the School of Medicine’s Li Ka Shing Center for Learning …
Obama's new open-data policy aims to boost access to federal data for entrepreneurs, researchers
Entrepreneurs and researchers will now have greater access to information generated and stored by the federal government thanks to an executive order recently issued by …
Stanford computer scientist shows stem cell researchers the power of big data
Not long ago, Stanford computer scientist Debashis Sahoo, PhD, told investigators at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine that in a …
Atul Butte discusses why big data is a big deal in biomedicine
Society is increasingly becoming more data-driven. Noting the power of vast reservoirs of public information, the federal government launched the Big Data Research and Development Initiative …
Stanford and Oxford team up for conference on "big data's" role in biomedicine
The number of gene-expression data sets available in public databases has climbed rapidly over the past decade, allowing researchers to spot disease trends without doing time-intensive …
Mining data from patients' charts to identify harmful drug reactions
Health-care providers know there's a wealth of valuable information trapped in the hand-written notes on patients' charts. But the challenge of collecting and interpreting the …
Strength in numbers: Harnessing public gene data to answer a diverse range of research questions
Nature News today takes a closer look at how Stanford systems-medicine chief Atul Butte, MD, PhD, and colleagues are mining a mountain of data to make medical discoveries, …