Can the complexities of biology be boiled down to Amazon.com-style recommendations? The examples here suggest possible pathways to an intelligent healthcare system with big data at its core.
“We have recommendations for you,” announces the website Amazon.com each time a customer signs in.
This mega-retailer analyzes billions of customers’ purchases—nearly $...
Jan, 02, 2012
How can we make data sharing less daunting in order to address the scientific reproducibility problem?
Biomedical data is undergoing an identity crisis.
“How can that be?” you may ask. It’s data: bits of information stored on servers somewhere; sequences of nucleotides in a...
Apr, 01, 2016
Leveraging Science and Technology for Effective Instruction
There is currently unprecedented interest in the potential of technology to transform learning. This buzz around technology and learning is especially loud in higher education, where pundits,...
Oct, 12, 2015
Cleverly designed software makes applications running in clusters more fault-tolerant
Machine learning is the process of automatically building models from data. In the past two decades, researchers in many fields of study have been generating these models from progressively more data...
Jun, 03, 2015
A Seller’s Market for Biomedical Data Science Jobs
Just pondering the current job market for biomedical data scientists is likely to put a smile on the faces of many in the field.
“The bottom line is, compared to other disciplines,...
Oct, 07, 2015
Hospitals with research agendas share a common problem: how to use medical records for research while protecting patient privacy. One approach—the data-protection equivalent of blurring the...
Jan, 01, 2009
BD2K Builds Training Resources
The field of biomedical data science is growing so fast that it threatens to leave some researchers behind.
“Some of these big data skills were not needed 5 to 10 years ago, and many...
Oct, 07, 2015
Researchers are not simply retrieving and repackaging what is already known, but are also deriving new knowledge by discovering connections that were previously unnoticed.
Not long ago, reading biomedical literature involved hours in the library combing through rows of dusty periodicals—not to mention pocketfuls of change for the copy machine. Now, although the...
Jul, 01, 2008
Researchers have found that biological data are amenable to fast search.
As biological data grow at an exponential rate, computing power and storage can no longer keep pace. For example, genomic data are increasing by 10-fold per year whereas computing speed is doubling...
Apr, 01, 2016
i2b2 enables the use of existing clinical data for discovery research
In 2011, the FDA issued a black box warning on Celexa, one of the most widely prescribed antidepressants in the US. At higher doses, the drug had been linked to potentially dangerous changes in the...
Mar, 01, 2014
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