Is dementia research ready for big data approaches?

BMC Medicine

Martin Hofmann-Apitius¹ 

[1] Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Sankt Augustin, 53754, Germany

关键词: Disease mechanisms;    Data mining;    Disease modeling;    Semantic harmonization;    Data interoperability;    Big data;   

Others  :  1216035
DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-015-0367-7

 received in 2015-05-12, accepted in 2015-05-13,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

The “big data” paradigm has gained a lot of attention recently, in particular in those areas of biomedicine where we face clear unmet medical needs. Coined as a new paradigm for complex problem solving, big data approaches seem to open promising perspectives in particular for a better understanding of complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. In this commentary, we will provide a brief overview on big data principles and the potential they may bring to dementia research, and - most importantly - we will do a reality check in order to provide an answer to the question of whether dementia research is ready for big data approaches.

【 授权许可】

   
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