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How can data management tools help us discover new treatments for a chronic disease?

Futurum

Dr Linda Brown , an epidemiologist, and Dr Megan Carnes , a genomics research scientist, from RTI International in the US have developed a suite of data management tools to help ME/CFS researchers to collaborate in the hope of finding new treatments. The DMCC has created a website, called MECFSnet, which contains information about ME/CFS.

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What do Data Scientists do?

Smore Science

What is Data Science? Let’s begin by explaining what data science is. Simply put, data science is the study of data. First, the data is chaotic and messy. Data science processes develop meaning from that data. Data science chooses and changes raw data into facts.