The power of big data must be harnessed for medical progress : Nature News & Comment
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Summary:
"There is art in ‘big data’ — in the poetic claims that it competes in volume with all the stars in the firmament. And in the seductive potential of its exponential, uncontrolled, ungraspable growth to improve our lives: by allowing medical treatments to be developed and approved more quickly — and, ultimately, truly personal medicine."