http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/ 2013-06-19T07:58:08-07:00 http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/ http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2013-06-17T13:12:42-07:00 Nigam Shah http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=home&rev=1371499962&do=diff1371499962 Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Medical School Office Building 1265 Welch Road, MSOB X-229, Stanford, CA 94305-5479 email: nigam@stanford.edu Administrative Contact: Natasha Haulman nhaulman@stanford.edu | (650) 725-3279 text/html 2013-04-17T15:00:58-07:00 Nigam Shah http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=publications&rev=1366236058&do=diff1366236058 For papers see: PubMed, Google Scholar Ontologies in support of formal representations of biological systems Nigam Shah and Mark Musen in The Handbook on Ontologies, (second edition) Editors: Stephen Staab and Rudi Studer Biomedical Data/Content Acquisition, Curation. Nigam Shah in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, (Springer Verlag) Area Editor: Vipul Kashyap text/html 2013-04-04T16:26:16-07:00 Nigam Shah http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=big_data&rev=1365117976&do=diff1365117976 There is a lot of discussion about Big Data these days, and various ways to quantify its characteristics. I propose a simple frame of reference. Simply put, data can be big in the amount of measurements on an individual (eg, sequencing) or can be big in number of individuals on whom there are some measurements (eg, clinical notes, laboratory measurements, claims).