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NIH Big Data Effort Focuses On Better Knowledge From Existing Data

Susan D.Hall | Fierce Health IT | May 12, 2014

Big data is transforming biomedical research, National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins writes in a blog post announcing an initiative called Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K).  To illustrate his point, Collins points to the work of Atul Butte of Stanford University, a NIH-funded researcher looking among mountains of existing data to find new links among genes, diseases and traits.

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