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November 28, 2012

Why Big Data Is the Key to Medicine

Derrick Harris, GigaOm


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There’s no shortage of great minds using big data techniques to improve the quality of our medical treatments, but sometimes they can’t get access to the data they need most. Improving access to genetic data, for example, might just help cure cancer.

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TAGGED: Biotechnology, Big Data

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