1st Edition

Accelerating Discovery Mining Unstructured Information for Hypothesis Generation

By Scott Spangler Copyright 2016
308 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

292 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

292 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Unstructured Mining Approaches to Solve Complex Scientific Problems As the volume of scientific data and literature increases exponentially, scientists need more powerful tools and methods to process and synthesize information and to formulate new hypotheses that are most likely to be both true and important. Accelerating Discovery: Mining Unstructured Information for Hypothesis... Read more

Introduction. Why Accelerate Discovery? Form and Function. Exploring Content to Find Entities. Organization. Relationships. Inference. Taxonomies. Orthogonal Comparison. Visualizing the Data Plane. Networks. Examples and Problems. Problem: Discovery of Novel Properties of Known Entities. Problem: Finding New Treatments for Orphan Diseases from Existing Drugs. Example: Target Selection Based on Protein Network Analysis. Example: Gene Expression Analysis for Alternative Indications. Example: Side Effects. Example: Protein Viscosity Analysis Using Medline Abstracts. Example: Finding Microbes to Clean Up Oil Spills. Example: Drug Repurposing. Example: Adverse Events. Example: Discovering New P53 Kinases. Conclusion and Future Work.

Biography

Scott Spangler is a principal data scientist, distinguished engineer, and master inventor in the Watson Innovations Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has been involved with knowledge base and data mining research for the past 25 years. His recent work has applied Watson technology to help accelerate cancer research. He holds 45 patents and is the author of over 30 publications. He received a BS in mathematics from MIT and an MS in computer science from the University of Texas.