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Tyler Beck, Mark Williams, Tyler Peryea, Dac-Trung Nguyen, Biomedical Data Translator Consortium, Noel Southall, Christine Clovis (NCATS, Bethesda, MD, USA)
Currently, the scientific community has an incredible wealth of biological data, but we lack the tools that would allow us to turn this data into understanding and more effectively help treat patients in the most clinically beneficial and cost-effective ways. By linking previously disparate sources of molecular, cellular, pharmaceutical, patient, and other data, we hope to be able to form a more complete picture for diseases from the bottom up. In doing so, researchers will be far better equipped to explore the underlying mechanisms of disease, particularly diseases which may have common symptoms which mask complex and varied underlying causes. To accomplish these goals, NCATS launched the Biomedical Data Translator program, called “Translator” for short. This multiyear, iterative effort has been assessing the feasibility of developing a comprehensive tool that integrates multiple types of existing data sources, including objective signs and symptoms of disease, drug effects, and intervening types of biological data relevant to understanding pathophysiology.