Rare Diseases Internet Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery

A rare or orphan disease (RD) is that which affects only an insignificant percentage of population, so traditionally has not received the effort devoted to common diseases. In common diseases there are healing or palliative treatments while there are over 4000 RD without a known cure. In Europe, RD affect between 27 and 36 million people (Rodwell & Aymé, 2013). Any progress in this field has a great social impact that translates directly into an improved quality of life of those affected by RD (Dragusin et al., 2011). Therefore, any advance in knowledge generation in the context of RD is welcome. One of the most important developments has come from data mining (see (Groth, 1998), and (Tomar & Agarwal, 2013)). The reduced amount of data makes the application of data mining techniques not easy in the field of RDs. Although for one disease the number of patients and data is reduced, they are numerous as a whole. Several initiatives collect data from RD patients around the world using the power of Internet (Orphadata, 2015). Given singularity of RDs, it is necessary to provide the information systems, the capacity to collect data and also promote cross-flow of information between the agents (patients and researchers). In this situation, it is interesting the development of projects like the one sponsored by the Avenzoar Chair (University of Seville, Spain), known as ER2.0 Project (see details in Rabasco et al. (2013a) and Rabasco et al. (2013b)). The underlying idea is to make it real to collaborate, share, and take decisions in a web 2.0 manner between patients and researchers in RDs. This chapter contains, first, a review of the information networks associated with RD, highlighting the registry, typology, associations and consortia related as well as the existing relationships between Rare Diseases Internet Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery

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