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Finding Health Data

This library guide contains resources on health data and statistics

Genomic Data

 

"Genomic data science is a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information hidden in DNA sequence. Applied in the context of genomic medicine, these data science tools help researchers and clinicians uncover how differences in DNA affect human health and disease.

Genomic data science emerged as a field in the 1990s to bring together two laboratory activities:

  • Experimentation: Generating genomic information from studying the genomes of living organisms.
     
  • Data analysis: Using statistical and computational tools to analyze and visualize genomic data, which includes processing and storing data and using algorithms and software to make predictions based on available genomic data.
     

Both activities help researchers acquire and gain insights from the vast amounts of genomic data." -Genomic Data Science Fact Sheet, National Human Genome Research Institute, 2022 

Genomic Data Sources

"The All of Us Research Program is a large-scale United States based research program that began nationwide enrollment in May 2018 and intends to recruit more than one million participants. All of Us integrates electronic health records (EHR) data with survey questionnaires, genomic data and wearable device data to develop a diverse, information rich database that serves as a central point for many secondary research studies and reduce the need for developing individual single use study specific data collection protocols."

 

 

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