Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Integrating biomedical research and electronic health records to create knowledge-based biologically meaningful machine-readable embeddings

  • Charlotte A. Nelson,
  • Atul J. Butte,
  • Sergio E. Baranzini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11069-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Scalable Precision Medicine Oriented Knowledge Engine (SPOKE) is a heterogeneous knowledge network that integrates information from 29 public databases. Here, Nelson et al. extend SPOKE to embed clinical data from electronic health records to create medically meaningful barcodes for each medical variable.