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Secure contact tracing needs more transparent development

The Parallax

But manual contact tracing requires boots on the ground — people to track down patients, interview them about where they’ve been and with whom they’ve met, then find those people and let them know that they’ve been in contact with someone who has tested positive. READ MORE ON COVID-19 AND CYBERSECURITY.

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Big Data in Healthcare: Sources and Real-World Applications

Altexsoft

Omics data is heterogeneous information generated from genome, proteome, transcriptome, metabolome, and epigenome used to study complex biochemical and regulatory processes of humans and other organisms. It’s referred to as big data, since, for example, just a single complete human genome sequence produces about 200 Gb of raw data.

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Our Response to 9/11 Gave us Lessons for COVID-19

The Cipher Brief

The COVID-19 outbreak will likely prove to be the most consequential event since the Second World War and economically as destructive as any event since the Great Depression. Certainly, the global economic and social scale of the COVID-19 outbreak is far more extensive than the events of 9/11. But in each case, U.S.

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