text mining

Despite increasing use of electronic medical records, much patient data remains in text form, requiring text-mining techniques to make full use of patient information.

Computer programs that trawl research papers can reveal important large-scale patterns and facilitate further research, but publishers are wary.

A new analysis reveals that US funding agencies may sometimes pay for the same project twice, leading to calls for greater oversight of grant duplication.
 

Researchers should scour historic medical archives to discover knowledge that could inform today’s biomedical research and clinical practice.