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 …
Category: Big data
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. …