BioInformatics: A Data Deluge with Hadoop to the Rescue by Marty Lurie.
From the post:
Cloudera Cofounder and Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher is leading a revolutionary project with Mount Sinai School of Medicine to apply the power of Cloudera’s Big Data platform to critical problems in predicting and understanding the process and treatment of disease.
“We are at the cutting edge of disease prevention and treatment, and the work that we will do together will reshape the landscape of our field,” said Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Mount Sinai Medical Center. “Mount Sinai is thrilled to join minds with Cloudera.” (Please see http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/press-center/press-releases/release.html?ReleaseID=1747809 for more details.)
Cloudera is active in many other areas of BioInformatics. Due to Cloudera’s market leadership in Big Data, many DNA mapping programs have specific installation instructions for CDH (Cloudera’s 100% open-source, enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop and related projects). But rather than just tell you about Cloudera let’s do a worked example of BioInformatics data – specifically FAERS.
A sponsored piece by Cloudera but walks you through using Impala with the FDA data on adverse drug reactions.
Demonstrates getting started with Impala isn’t hard. Which is true.
What’s lacking is a measure of the difficulty of good results.
Any old result, good or bad, probably isn’t of interest to most users.