Abstract STRIDE (Stanford Translational Research Integrated Database Environment) is a
research and development project at Stanford University to create a standards-based …

BACKGROUND Understanding of cancer outcomes is limited by data fragmentation. In the
current study, the authors analyzed the information yielded by integrating breast cancer data …

Genome-wide association studies have identified genetic variants for thousands of diseases
and traits. We evaluated the relationships between specific risk factors (for example, blood …

Objectives To address the challenge of balancing privacy with the need to create cross-site
research registry records on individual patients, while matching the data for a given patient …

Goals To examine the role that autoantibodies (auto-abs) play in chronic hepatitis C virus
(HCV) regarding demographics, presence of extrahepatic manifestations and long-term …

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) using observational data requires informatics
methods for the extraction, standardization, sharing, and integration of data derived from a …

The severity of diseases has often been assigned by direct observation of a patient and by
pathological examination after symptoms have appeared. As we move into the genomic era …

Traditionally, the elucidation of genes involved in maturation and aging has been studied in
a temporal fashion by examining gene expression at different time points in an organism's …

INTRODUCTION Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a rare autoimmune disorder in
which auto-antibodies target red blood cell surface antigens, causing hemolysis. The …