Biomedical ‘big data’ has opened opportunities for data repurposing to reveal new insights into complex diseases. Public data on IBD have been repurposed for novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and these datasets continue to grow. Here, we discuss the practicalities and implications of open data informatics for IBD.
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V.A.R. was supported by the NIH training grant T32 DK007007-42. A.J.B. was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bioinformatics Support Contract HHSN316201200036W).
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Rudrapatna, V.A., Butte, A.J. Open data informatics and data repurposing for IBD. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 15, 715–716 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-018-0050-5
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