Expanding medicineʼs knowledge base

The Impressive and Rapidly Expanding Knowledge Base on SARS

hree days after issuing a global alert (1) about cases of atypical pneumonia in several countries in southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the term SARS to the world's lexicon (2). Familiarity with the newly coined acronym for " severe acute respiratory syndrome " was immediate, fueled by fear and by virtually continuous coverage by the media. 1 This intense reaction an...

Expanding the Knowledge Base for more Effective Data Mining

Traditionally, data mining, as part of the knowledge discovery process, relies solely on the information contained in the database to generate patterns. Recently, there has been some recognition in the field that expanding the knowledge passed to the pattern generation phase by including other domain knowledge, may have beneficial effects of the interestingness and actionability of the resultin...

Expanding yeast knowledge online.

The completion of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome sequencing project and the continued development of improved technology for large-scale genome analysis have led to tremendous growth in the amount of new yeast genetics and molecular biology data. Efficient organization, presentation, and dissemination of this information are essential if researchers are to exploit this knowledge. In additi...

Antibody-drug conjugates: Converting our expanding knowledge base into successful immunotherapeutics

Recruiting computing professionals — Expanding the recruitment base

A series of four studies examined reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing. These studies involved 1) 32 male and 32 female university computing students, 2) 19 female computing professionals, 3) 33 schoolgirls, and 4) 22 Australian and 22 Asian university computing students. The studies identified misperceptions about the nature of computing careers as a major factor deterring...