Our Impact on Big Data

We have more and more opportunities to collect, produce and access research data. But drawing meaning from all that information is still difficult. Data sets are often vast, complex and not linked together in useful ways.

To speed the translation of research observations into health solutions, we have invested heavily in new approaches to learn from large sets of complex data. Our efforts have shown that connecting data from people’s electronic health records can deliver public health insights in weeks, rather than months or years. We have further demonstrated the power of synthesizing data from a variety of sources to spur therapeutic leads through the drug development pipeline. And we've created the tools that others also use to make these connections and share the results faster.

Big data offers big opportunities across the entire spectrum of translational science. Our newer initiatives apply data science tools like machine learning to mine unexplored chemical space for new therapeutic molecules and use clinical data to speed rare disease diagnoses.

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