Graph Databases: The Key to Groundbreaking Medical Research
Neo4j’s Alicia Frame explains how life science researchers can exploit graph databases to get truly granular insight into big data to make major leaps forward in medical research.Complex data sets hold the key to advancing medical breakthroughs. These data sets tend to be voluminous and heterogeneous by nature, presenting an insurmountable challenge for traditional data analysis methods as they struggle to link patterns and outcomes. The unfortunate consequence is a slowdown in the progress of research.Anyone who works in life sciences is aware that they are working with highly connected information; the challenge is making sense of these connections. Unfortunately, many scientists are still using relational databases and spreadsheets which makes mapping important patterns and connections unintuitive and difficult, if not impossible.Graph technologyGraph technology is emerging as an enabler for researchers to trawl gargantuan amounts of unstructured data, turning it into valuab