Recombinant Research: Breaking open rewards and incentives
In the previous articles in this series I’ve looked at problems in current medical research, and at the legal and technical solutions proposed by Sage Bionetworks. Pilot projects have shown encouraging...
View ArticleHealth records support genetics research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Michael Italia leads a team of programmers and scientists at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Center for Biomedical Informatics, where they develop applications, data repositories, and web...
View ArticleDiscovering genetic associations using large data
David Heckerman from Microsoft Research presents a summary of his work in the session “Discovering Genetic Associations on Large Data.” This was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized...
View ArticleData sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)
The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of...
View ArticleData sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an...
View ArticleA very serious game that can cure the orphan diseases
In the inspiring tradition of Foldit, the game for determining protein shapes, Fit2Cure crowdsources the problem of finding drugs that can cure the many under-researched diseases of developing...
View ArticlePodcast: George Church on genomics
A few weeks ago some of my colleagues and I recorded a conversation with George Church, a Harvard University geneticist and one of the founders of modern genomics. In the resulting podcast, you’ll...
View ArticleGenomics and the Role of Big Data in Personalizing the Healthcare Experience
This article was written with Ellen M. Martin and Tobi Skotnes. Dr. Feldman will deliver a webinar on this topic on September 18 and will speak about it at the Strata Rx conference. Genomics is making...
View ArticleTechnology that gets under your skin
Editor’s note: we’re running a series of five excerpts from our forthcoming book Designing for Emerging Technologies, a compilation of works by industry experts in areas of user experience design...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 October 2015
Dataflow Computers: Their History and Future (PDF) — entry from 2008 Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering. Mirador — open source tool for visual exploration of complex data sets. It...
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