It also supports the diagnosing process by using on-line support vector machines able to learn incrementally from the diseases instances that are continuously added into the system.
Each gene-disease instance is semantically defined using the DisGeNET association type ontology integrated into SIO and identified by resolvable Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs).
Deaths from heart disease, for instance, are down a whopping 25% from a decade ago.
At the same time, deaths from heart disease – for instance – have halved.
It is extremely important, but there is a lot more to do, with identifying targets and how they are associated with disease, for instance.
There's a strong correlation between vaccines and less childhood disease, for instance, and a simple biological mechanism of induced immunity to explain it.
The depression associated with Parkinson's disease, for instance, seems to have little to do with serotonin.
Given a problem — adapting to a new disease, for instance — a population uses the Darwinian algorithm of random mutation plus natural selection to search for a solution (in this case, disease resistance).
Patients with a history of ulcers or heart disease, for instance, did consult their doctors before taking the drug, a finding that Dr. Berlin said suggested that more specific warnings were not necessary.
Gerson Lehrman now has 8,500 of these associates, and annual revenues of $12m.The issues can be fairly broad (a tutorial on heart disease, for instance) or narrow (eg, on specific side-effects of rare-cancer treatments).
