International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2012)
| June 28, 2012 | to | June 29, 2012 |
College Park MD, United States
Applications of data integration in the life sciences have started to provide significant results. For example, the eMERGE Network has recently demonstrated that combining phenotype information extracted from electronic medical records with genotype information in order to study the relationship between genome-wide genetic variation and common human traits is a viable and cost-effective alternative to the traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Read more »