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"CLINICAL BINNING" of patient genomic variant data for the medical staff at UNC-Chapel Hill. "This assigns a clinical relevancy to every one of the variants, allowing clinicians and patients to determine the types of variants they care about. Once variants are binned, we have a web site that delivers the information on the individual to his or her physicians." Processing just 30 genomes a week needs 200-300 terabytes of genomic data on the computer. " " http://lnkd.in/d7mETUu View in LinkedIn

UNIVERSITIES DRIVE THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. A societal commitment to creating and funding excellence in research institutions, cutting-edge science and peer-reviewed publications, and the submission of technology patents is a pre-requisite for an emerging Knowledge Economy. These patents generate licensing revenues for the university and spinout companies. The trickle-down on local economies can at its best generate a Silicon Valley or a Boston. But it takes a significant commitment, expertise, and a realization that the process is very inefficient. View in LinkedIn

CROWDSOURCING SUCCESS STORY. "Medic Mobile, had built an emergency response system after the Haiti earthquake, calling on 2,500 Creole speakers to translate text messages. When the system was overwhelmed..., Nesbit turned to CrowdFlower, which has signed up more than 2 million people to perform micro-tasks, often for pennies a task. The volunteers used CrowdFlower’s website to translate, map, and organize nearly 100,000 messages, imploring rescuers for food, water, and help escaping from fallen buildings."" " http://lnkd.in/dqTPkTN View in LinkedIn

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY MARKETS are forecast to be significant. "The safety and security sector is one of the main market segments for Wearable Technologies. In particular, the potential demands of this segment include: intelligent armaments and protective suits for laborers, rescue personnel and the military; illuminated clothing and communication and emergency call devices worn on clothing; special solutions for military/special services training and education."" " http://www.wearable-technologies.com/2013/11/new-market-reports-released/ View in LinkedIn

TOO MUCH DATA. "Our ability to generate data far outstrips our ability to analyze it. To counter these trends, some scientists are venturing into crowdsourcing. Others are developing sophisticated algorithms to parse data in a keystroke. And still more are inventing ways to share massive, disparate datasets to yield surprising insights."" " http://lnkd.in/dqTPkTN View in LinkedIn

SYSTEMS NOT DEVICES. "The wearable products range in performance from monitoring sleep patterns, water intake and activity levels. “Quantified self” devices have grown to include sensors that are worn as watches, clothing, “biostamp” temporary tattoos, ingested, implanted and carried. All of the devices are designed to users take their healthcare into their own hands."" " http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html View in LinkedIn

BIG DATA, BIG HEALTHCARE COST SAVINGS. "According to McKinsey & Company, with the right tools, big data could be worth $9 billion to U.S. public health surveillance alone and $300 billion to American health care in general, the former by improving detection of and response to infectious disease outbreaks, and the latter largely through reductions in expenditures."" " http://lnkd.in/dqTPkTN View in LinkedIn

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY. "Sony has filed a patent application for "SmartWig", as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn "in addition to natural hair", and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices."" " http://lnkd.in/dMG6m96 View in LinkedIn

SCIENCE DATA MEGA-OVERLOAD. “In the last five years, more scientific data has been generated than in the entire history of mankind,” says Winston Hide, associate professor of bioinformatics at HSPH. “You can imagine what’s going to happen in the next five.” And this data isn’t simply linear; genetics and proteomics, to name just two fields of study, generate high-dimensional data, which is fundamentally different in scale."" " http://lnkd.in/dqTPkTN View in LinkedIn

BIG DATA IN GENOMICS AND MEDICINE. "Genomics produces huge volumes of data; each human genome has 20,000-25,000 genes comprised of 3 million base pairs. This amounts to 100 gigabytes of data, equivalent to 102,400 photos. Sequencing multiple human genomes would quickly add up to hundreds of petabytes of data, and the data created by analysis of gene interactions multiplies those further." More than 2000 genes are linked with over 300 common human disease traits."" " http://lnkd.in/dNMe8Bq View in LinkedIn