Big Data: Genomics & Public Health

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Big Data: Genomics & Public Health

NIH invests almost $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data, October 2014

NIH BD2K Initiative: The ability to harvest the wealth of information contained in biomedical Big Data will advance our understanding of human health and disease; however, lack of appropriate tools, poor data accessibility, and insufficient training, are major impediments to rapid translational impact

American Society for Human Genetics, special symposium on big data, San Diego, California: Separating signal from noise, Sunday, October 18, 2014

NCI-CDC paper: Shaikh AR, Butte AJ, Schully SD, Dalton WS, Khoury MJ, Hesse BW. Collaborative biomedicine in the age of big data: the case of cancer. J Med Internet Res. 2014 Apr 7;16(4):e101.

NCI-CDC paper: Transforming epidemiology for 21st century population health in the age of genomics and big data, CEBP (2013)

NCI-CDC paper: A population approach to big data and precision medicine,
Am J Prev Med (2012)

Finding the missing link for big biomedical data.
Weber GM, et al. JAMA. 2014 Jun 25;311(24):2479-80.

Mining the big data mountain, by Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director's blog, May 2014