Open data informatics and data repurposing for IBD

Vivek A Rudrapatna; Atul J Butte

doi:10.1038/s41575-018-0050-5

Open data informatics and data repurposing for IBD

Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Dec;15(12):715-716. doi: 10.1038/s41575-018-0050-5.

Authors

Vivek A Rudrapatna^{1

2}, Atul J Butte^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].

Abstract

Biomedical ‘big data’ has opened opportunities for data repurposing to reveal new insights into complex diseases. Public data on IBD have been repurposed for novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and these datasets continue to grow. Here, we discuss the practicalities and implications of open data informatics for IBD.

MeSH terms

Access to Information*
Big Data*
Datasets as Topic
Humans
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / diagnosis*
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / therapy

Abstract

MeSH terms

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