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Bryce Merkl Sasaki
Word count
487
Language
English
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Summary

Irina Balaur uses Neo4j as part of the eTRIKS project to develop a knowledge management system for translational medicine, leveraging its ability to manage and integrate heterogeneous biomedical data. She chose Neo4j due to its strengths in data integration and inference of new associations among concepts. Since using Neo4j, she has had positive results, including transitioning her initial database with genetic and epigenetic interdependencies into the graph database, and her colleagues have found it helpful for exploring subnetworks and analyzing metabolites. However, she wishes there were more tools to share networks and do data analytics, or an interface that would help clinicians communicate with biologists. She is looking forward to downloading Neo4j 3.0 to see its new features.