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, …
Category: Big data
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, …
Mining medical discoveries from a mountain of ones and zeroes
Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta - that's a lotta. Add three zeroes for each term separated by commas, and, next thing you …
The data deluge: A report from Stanford Medicine magazine
Just as people leave digital trails these days, so do our cells, and they’ve been doing so for decades as a result of biomedical research. …