[ExI] good bexarotene article

[BillK]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM, spike  wrote:
> We could use something like that Snowmed CT database, and arrange a
> volunteer base to do some kind of background computing project to look for
> unexpected correlations.  Once we get thousands of people grinding away in
> the background, some of those people might study Snowmed CT and come up with
> suggested extensions and improvements, or if nothing else, just clean up
> their own records, mention all the grass they smoked back in college, and
> such as that.  Something roughly analogous happened with the cavalcade
> database after we started getting useful data: the others used it and put
> their own data in there, such that it snowballed.  If the Snowmed CT
> database does likewise, it would be appropriately named.
>
>


Thinking it over, it sounds like a project for Watson.

I believe they are already planning to use Watson to help with medical
diagnosis.
Why do all these projects take years?


BillK