This is the main motivation behind biomedical curation activities: 'to help the Life Sciences community to make sense of all the data that is accumulating' (2).
Our proposed system links learners' current knowledge and contexts in the real world to past learners' knowledge and contextual data that are accumulated in cyber space, by using a collocational network.
"In 2009, when I was at the school, there was this study... the amount of the data that was accumulated for the last year equaled everything that we had about the entire human history".
"In 2009, when I was at the school, there was this study... the amount of the data that was accumulated for the last year equaled everything that we had about the entire human history". She quickly discovered that much of the data was poorly-optimized and rarely benefitted the user.
Written informed consent was not obtained from the participants, because this is a retrospective study using clinical and HRCT data that were accumulated in daily practice.
To help make sense of the mass of online data that's accumulating, he has built WebFountain, a supercomputer-based system able to examine millions of Web pages.
Doubtless, a much clearer picture will emerge from analyses of the massive data that are accumulating from next-generation sequencing.
In addition to the obvious need to carefully consider what data is really necessary for the respective research context, structuring the data material that is accumulated during the project in a manner that is both practical and suitable to the object of research becomes absolutely essential.
Marketers and publishers need to look for ways to tap into the rich data that is being accumulated on their own real estate, or else become blind to it (interestingly, it seems that so far publishers aren't too concerned: 50,000 of them implemented Facebook's new social plug-ins within a week of the launch).
Despite the many successes so far, there is a need to better exploit the volume of clinical and genomic data that is being accumulated in diagnostic genetic laboratories (typically thousands of patients tested per year per centre) and to make these data available to the wider scientific and clinical genetic community.
