Health IT Analytics May 20, 2020
Jessica Kent

A new big data analytics model combines information from multiple cancer types to advance precision medicine and drug discovery.

A big data analytics tool that uses information from multiple cancer types could help researchers identify potential treatments and accelerate precision medicine, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Clinical Cancer Informatics revealed.

Developed by researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, the tool combines multiple datasets to help turn information into meaningful clinical insights. Recent efforts to categorize the molecular data of multiple cancer types has produced an overwhelming amount of data, researchers noted, and this tool could help researchers make sense of it all.

“Our idea was to combine three sources of data sets –...

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