In an effort to spark collaboration among thought leaders across industry, government and academia, Stanford's upcoming Big Data in Biomedicine conference is hosting a technical …
Category: Big data
Euan Ashley discusses harnessing big data to drive innovation for a healthier world
Electronic patient records, clinical trials, DNA sequencing, and medical imaging and disease registries are a sampling of the sources contributing to the exponential growth of public databases …
Registration opens for Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford
Stanford researchers have used data mining methods to sift through consumers’ web search history and discover unreported side effects of drugs, pull information from patients' …
Grant from Li Ka Shing Foundation to fund big data initiative and conference at Stanford
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 …
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 …