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[Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

This is off of our current things to do right now but I found this
article interesting.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/311  

It is pertinent in the fact that I have been discussing the
possibilities and the use cases for a link of the R statistical package
and OSHIP.  Also, last year, I worked on a grant proposal with some
people in the US regarding SNP processing and EHRs.  However, the SNP
group wasn't really open source / open content oriented so we dropped
the whole thing due to lack of agreement.

The above article is interesting because more and more people in
developed countries at least, are getting their DNA recorded for medical
analysis purposes.  This information can potentially be persisted in
EHRs. 

"One of the main outcomes from these studies is a subset of
statistically significant SNPs. Finding the potential biological
functions of such SNPs can be an important step towards further use in
human and agricultural populations (e.g., for identifying genes related
to susceptibility to complex diseases or genes playing key roles in
development or performance). The current challenge is that the
information holding the clues to SNP functions is distributed across
many different databases."

Should I add this to the MLHIM 2.x ideas?
http://www.mlhim.org/Members/timcook/mlhim-2.0/view 
(login required)

Cheers,
Tim



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