POSTS TAGGED AS bioinformatics

CHOP’s Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine

Open Data Archives
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest pediatric hospital and largest in terms of its research programs, has [MORE]

Predictive Genomics: Stanford’s PRECOG for Cancer Outcomes

Data Base
“Prediction of Cancer Outcomes from Genomic Profiles” is what Stanford’s Cancer Institute calls its database that integrates expression profiling [MORE]

New Platform for Cancer Epigenetic Profiling

Epigenetics
Biostatisticians at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harvard University have collaborated to create a new “co-expression” analysis of cancer, on [MORE]

21st Century Cures Act

Personalized Medicine
In case you thought you’d never live to see a unanimous vote on anything in Congress, recall HR 6, [MORE]

Automated Vital Signs Scanning for Trauma Patients in Transit

APPRAISE System
Internal hemorrhaging is a life-threatening risk for trauma patients, and every moment toward a correct assessment saves live. To [MORE]

Computerized “Staining” for the Automated Pathology Lab

Digital Pathology
Dyes that originated for coloring textiles about 150 years ago have been used ever since for histological staining. And [MORE]

The “Cyber Heart” Project

Cyber Heart
With funding from the National Science Foundation, seven universities are collaborating in a computational modeling project “the Cyber Heart.” [MORE]

Predicting Tumor Aggressiveness

Here’s a math score that really could kill you. In this case MATH (meaning mutant-allele tumor heterogeneity) is a bioinformatics [MORE]

The Matchmaker Exchange

Matchmaker Exchange Participants
Some 200,000 people worldwide have had their genomes sequenced, and today it takes about a half hour to [MORE]

Robotic Ankle with Ground Scanning Camera

Prosthetic Ankle
Engineers at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) have developed a prosthetic foot and ankle with a ground scanning camera [MORE]

EPIC Welcomes App Developers

Epic Systems EHR
Sometime this year, the US Defense Department will choose a provider for military’s electronic health record—a contract worth [MORE]

“Compressed Sensing;” Must Read

Beregninger Compressed Sensing
Magnetic resonance imaging and DNA sequencing both involve huge amount of data for analysis and storage. What would [MORE]

Big Leap into the Data Pool

Medical Data Errors
With 100,000 health apps for smartphones and a potential market of close to half trillion dollars driving [MORE]

Big Data’s Big Mistakes

Professor Isaac Kohane
“I am concerned that it’s all too easy to see the data and say, ‘I’ve been doing big-data [MORE]