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RSS diseaseData Mining: Understanding Data and Disease Modeling
White Paper The application, reported in this paper, involves developing a disease model from gene expression data using machine learning techniques. Analyzing large data sets requires proper understanding of the data in advance. [01 Oct 2008]
Data Mining and Genetic Algorithm Based Gene/SNP Selection
White Paper The analysis of SNPs permits determining relationships between genotypic and phenotypic information as well as the identification of SNPs related to a disease. Genomic studies provide large volumes of data with the... [01 Oct 2008]
Personalization is the prescription for new drugs
White Paper This article shows how by examining disease with the right technology, pharmaceutical researchers are able to more accurately define disease and understand how it affects certain people differently.... [29 Sep 2008]
Survival Data Mining: Treatment of Chronic Illness
White Paper Medications are changed, and added when the patient experiences side effects or the disease progresses so that a medication is no longer effective. Patients with chronic illness often have many medications available for... [19 Sep 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News A virtual illness wiped out entire servers of users in World of Warcraft in 2005 when a design flaw allowed the disease to spread throughout low level players. The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being hijacked... [28 Aug 2008]
Extreme Networks Delivers a Healthy High-Performance Infrastructure to UCSF Research Department
White Paper The University of San Francisco's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics trains students, fellows and faculty in methods for studying disease etiology and prevention in general populations, evaluating diagnostic... [04 Aug 2008]
TGen Quickens Pace of Genomic Research With IBM and Linux Cluster Solution
White Paper Established in 2002 with 23 scientists, Phoenix-based TGen responds to the needs of scientists for medical data to study genomes and the genetic changes contributing to disease progression and resistance to therapy. [03 Jul 2008]
Preparing for the Legal Aspects of BioTerrorism: Model Emergency Public Health Legislation
White Paper The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in collaboration with governors, legislators, attorneys general and health commissioners released a Model Emergency Health Powers Act to provide strong powers to respond to... [03 Jul 2008]
Will Smallpox Vaccinations Save Lives?
White Paper Vaccination has been so effective that smallpox, as a naturally occurring disease, has been completely eradicated. Smallpox, one of the most feared pestilences in human history, is at the center of a national and... [03 Jul 2008]
Measuring the Economic Costs of Terrorist Attacks
White Paper In the other scenario, the economic losses resulting from a deliberate spreading of the devastating virus for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in a predominantly agricultural state, such as Iowa, were reviewed. [03 Jul 2008]
The American Diabetes Association: Improving the Accuracy of Health Care System Modeling
White Paper Diabetes is a complex disease. The ADA has a vision to accurately predict the effectiveness of different therapies to best manage the disease while considering these myriad factors. ADA experts found a... [03 Jul 2008]
palmOne Case Study: Center of Excellence
White Paper Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that updating the manual data-collection process as a logical first step in improving the ability to measure and assess a disaster setting. Paper-based methods are extremely... [03 Jul 2008]
Merck KGaA Fosters Research Collaboration with WebSphere Software from IBM
White Paper Researchers at Darmstadt, Germany-based Merck KGaA (Merck) are at the epicenter of some of the most exciting developments in the pharmaceutical industry from elucidating the structure of a protein that plays a major role in the control... [03 Jul 2008]
Preparing Your Life Sciences Organization for Bioinformatics
White Paper Studying the relationships of proteins to disease states requires a new generation of information systems and computational resources to manage extraordinary amounts of information. The complexity associated with... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo This personal device, which gives people the ability to do at-home tests for Parkinson's disease, contains six motor and tremor tests similar to modern in-clinic techniques. With two cameras on its hand, the device is... [18 Jun 2008]
