It was this ability to share data that inspired Matthew Trunnell. He recognized that the best way to accelerate the race to cure cancer is to enable multiple research organizations to share their data in new ways. While this sounds simple in theory, its execution is complicated. To begin, even in a single organization data is often stashed in silos that must be connected, a challenge made even greater when the silos sit in different institutions. The data may not be stored in a form that is readable by machines. Even if it is, different data sets are likely to be formatted, labeled, and
...more
