Enabling personalised disease diagnosis by combining a patient's time-specific gene expression profile with a biomedical knowledge base.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recent developments in the domain of biomedical knowledge bases (KBs) open up new ways to exploit biomedical knowledge that is available in the form of KBs. Significant work has been done in the direction of biomedical KB creation and KB completion, specifically, those having gene-disease associations and other related entities. However, the use of such biomedical KBs in combination with patients' temporal clinical data still largely remains unexplored, but has the potential to immensely benefit medical diagnostic decision support systems.

Authors

  • Ghanshyam Verma
    Insight Centre for Data Analytics, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland. ghanshyam.verma@insight-centre.org.
  • Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
  • Michael G Madden
    School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Galway H91 TK33, Ireland.