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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2019

Translational medicine in the Age of Big Data.

Nicholas P Tatonetti

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Methods for identifying biomedical translation: a systematic review.American journal of translational research · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Nicholas P TatonettiDepartments of Biomedical Informatics, Systems Biology, and Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Biomedical Data Translator Technical Feasibility Assessment and Architecture DesignOT3TR002027 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DUMONTIER, MICHEL, TATONETTI, NICHOLAS P · 2016 to 2019
$2.7M
Drug Effect Discovery Through Data Mining and Integrative Chemical BiologyR01GM107145 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI TATONETTI, NICHOLAS P · 2014 to 2018
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS OT3 TR002027NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to collect, store and analyze massive amounts of molecular and clinical data is fundamentally transforming the scientific method and its application in translational medicine. Collecting observations has always been a prerequisite for discovery, and great leaps in scientific understanding are accompanied by an expansion of this ability. Particle physics, astronomy and climate science, for example, have all greatly benefited from the development of new technologies enabling the collection of larger and more diverse data. Unlike medicine, however, each of these fields also has a mature theoretical framework on which new data can be evaluated and incorporated-to say it another way, there are no 'first principals' from which a healthy human could be analytically derived. The worry, and it is a valid concern, is that, without a strong theoretical underpinning, the inundation of data will cause medical research to devolve into a haphazard enterprise without discipline or rigor. The Age of Big Data harbors tremendous opportunity for biomedical advances, but will also be treacherous and demanding on future scientists.

Indexed as

Databases, FactualInformation Storage and RetrievalMedical InformaticsPrecision MedicineTranslational Research, BiomedicalComputational BiologyData MiningHumansBig Databiomedical informaticsdata miningobservational analysistranslational bioinformaticstranslational medicine

Identifiers

PMID29040418
PMCPMC6433900

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