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54 Gene enlists Paradigm4 app for African Health Information Ecosystem

Paradigm4 has signed an agreement with 54Gene allowing the latter to use the former’s Reveal Biobank App to explore, characterise and query 54Gene’s African Health Information Ecosystem, which is a curated data source of clinical phenotype and genetic information from which insights can be generated to assist the development of treatments and diagnostics.

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Biocompare | Are We Ready to Embrace Precision Medicine?

Precision medicine is one of the most talked about trends in healthcare. The promise is improved health outcomes and patient satisfaction, gained through an understanding of individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. Recent commentators suggest that many of the technologies required to realize this goal already exist—and predict much

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insideBIGDATA || Big Data in Life Sciences – Why ‘doing things the old way’ is the Biggest Barrier to Progress

Zachary Pitluk, Ph.D., Vice President of Life Sciences and Healthcare at Paradigm4, highlights how real insight comes, not from data collection, but from intelligent data curation, computation, and application.

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Genentic Engineering & Biotechnology News | AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype

The past few years have seen several flashy demonstrations of how artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may transform biomedical research, particularly with respect to drug discovery.