Griffin Weber described the Profiles open source tool that is now being used world wide that was first developed for our work in Harvard Catalyst. It is used to find collaborators, create teams for research projects, study promotion and the processes of academia.
Professor Tianxi Cai ran a very interesting discussion about generating risk profiles for biomarkers and the problem in adjusting out the diseases that are along the causal pathway to mortality of those biomarkers. As a result of such an over adjustment, most biomarkers will give counter-conventional-wisdom associations.
Murphy, Bickel, Kohane, Simons, Churchill, Mendis. Wattanasin, Weber, Donahoe, MacFadden
Discussed the interaction between different governance models and how they interact with the architecture.
