dementia treatment?10 Jan 2017 16:24
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Sheffield-based WANdisco is using its expertise to support a European Union (EU) funded initiative which could make it easier for doctors to spot the early signs of dementia, a disease which killed more than 61,000 people in England and Wales last year.
A WANdisco spokesman said: “Dementia develops as a result of the interaction of genetic, non-genetic and environmental factors.
“Large quantities of the behavioral, genetic, environmental and clinical data relating to those factors is already being generated in laboratories all over the world."
“Until recently, it has been impossible to store and process such massive and diverse data sets.”
The University of Sheffield’s Center for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine has started to analyse this data with WANdisco’s Active Transactional Data Replication technology.
This enables large volumes of data to be moved between eight different cloud providers, so it can be analysed by more than 950 applications. The data is then used in a series of computer platforms available throughout the EU.
The first is the clinical research platform Multix, which allows researchers to collate large amounts of information such as MRI scans, physiological data and patient histories.
The WANdisco spokesman added: “The data from Multix can then be incorporated into a patient care platform or - PCP - which allows doctors to input patient data, and take advantage of all the knowledge already created by Multix.