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The Cure for Cancer Is Data – Mountains of Data
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The Cure for Cancer Is Data – Mountains of Data

Wired, 2016


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Could big data help scientists find cures for previously incurable diseases? Mathematician and molecular and computational biology specialist Eric Schadt believes so. Journalist and Esquire editor Mark Warren explores how advances in gene sequencing, data mining and machine learning could allow scientists to scour exabytes of data to glean disease patterns and predictors. getAbstract recommends this summary to medical researchers, data scientists and those interested in the future of medicine.

Take-Aways

  • Gene sequencing and advances in machine learning have opened vast new frontiers in medicine, but most patients have yet to benefit from these developments.
  • Researchers require massive data sets to get to the root causes of disease, but so far it’s proven difficult to assemble that much data in one easily searchable library.
  • Medical centers rarely share patient data because the facilities are isolated, competitive and lack economic incentive.

About the Author

Mark Warren is the executive editor of Esquire magazine.


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