Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

Recent advances in high-throughput genomic technologies are showing concrete results in
the form of an increasing number of genome-wide association studies and in the publication …

Human biospecimens have played a crucial role in scientific and medical advances.
Although the ethical and policy issues associated with biospecimen research have long …

Numerous studies of genetic epidemiology and post-genomics in respiratory diseases rely
on the use of biobanks, defined as organised biological sample collections with associated …

In the first quarter of the 21st century, we are already facing the third emergence of a
coronavirus outbreak, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

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The rapid development of machine learning (ML) techniques has opened up the data-dense
field of microbiome research for novel therapeutic, diagnostic, and prognostic applications …

Biobanks can have a pivotal role in elucidating disease etiology, translation, and advancing
public health. However, meeting these challenges hinges on a critical shift in the way …

The recent completion of the first two individual whole-genome sequences is a research
milestone. As personal genome research advances, investigators and international research …

Insights into the incidence and survival of cancer, the influence of lifestyle and
environmental factors and the interaction of treatment regimens with outcomes are hugely …