Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event scheduled for today (April 17) has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Prof. Melissa Haendel
• Director of the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory
• Chief Research Informatics Officer at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Title
Making translational science go faster, better, together by harmonizing data
Abstract
Addressing complex scientific challenges requires weaving together data from diverse sources, organisms, contexts, formats, and granularities, and building a coherent holistic view of this data landscape to address any given problem. Often in the aggregation process, many of the original connections within the data are lost. Moreover, it is difficult to infer connections without a common conceptual model. A common model is made possible by novel data integration strategies that leverage semantic technologies such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, and common modeling frameworks. However, it takes the people too; robust interdisciplinary collaboration and data access can advance translational science and innovation. This talk will discuss lessons learned in the context of rare disease diagnostics and mechanism discovery, as well as Real World Data collaborative analytics on COVID data.
