The National Institutes of Health administered nearly $7 million in grants through its Big Data to Knowledge initiative last week. The grants were given in four different categories. Case Western’s grant was given in the data provenance category, according to the report.
Case Western computer scientists will develop a provenance engine through PROV, a new web technology developed to support interoperability. Then, the researchers will evaluate the provenance engine’s performance by using biomedical data from sleep, epilepsy and lung cancer cases, according to the report.
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Duke University in Durham, N.C., also received grants through the BD2K initiative.
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