Best of ICBI in 2017
2017 was a busy year at the Georgetown Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, ICBI ! Driven by our mission to apply data insights and informatics in advancing human health, our team led or contributed to numerous innovation, service and education projects. I share a few of our aha moments from 2017 here with you. 1. Innovation Text2Action : Clinicians and patients must know the strength of scientific evidence that associates genes to drugs to advance personalized care. A pubmed search for 50 cancer genes with FDA approved on label or off label treatments and/or investigational drugs in clinical trials yielded 47,558 articles on Nov 13, 2017. This would take a trained biocurator roughly 142,674 hours or 17,834 work days or 8 years to complete. Sounds like a project ripe for automation, right? In collaboration with the Computer scientists at University of Delaware, we developed a NIST TREC Challenge award winning natural language processing method that not only automates ext