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Open data informatics and data repurposing for IBD

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 15, pages 715–716 (2018)Cite this article

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Biomedical ‘big data’ has opened opportunities for data repurposing to reveal new insights into complex diseases. Public data on IBD have been repurposed for novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and these datasets continue to grow. Here, we discuss the practicalities and implications of open data informatics for IBD.

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V.A.R. was supported by the NIH training grant T32 DK007007-42. A.J.B. was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bioinformatics Support Contract HHSN316201200036W).

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Vivek A. Rudrapatna

  2. Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Vivek A. Rudrapatna & Atul J. Butte

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Atul J. Butte

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Rudrapatna, V.A., Butte, A.J. Open data informatics and data repurposing for IBD. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 15, 715–716 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-018-0050-5

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