Slides from Atul Butte's TEDMED talk from April 13, 2012

2. Kilo
Mega
Giga
Tera
Peta
Exa
Zetta

3. The End of Theory:
The Data Deluge Makes the
Scientific Method Obsolete
Credit: Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine

4. Credit: National Library of Medicine and European Bioinformatics Institute

5. Credit: National Library of Medicine and European Bioinformatics Institute

6. Credit: Kevin Lustig,
AssayDepot

7. Credit: Kevin Lustig,
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8. Credit: Kevin Lustig,
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9. Credit: Kevin Lustig,
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10. Credit: Kevin Lustig,
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11. Credit: Painting by Alexander Roslin (public domain, through Wikipedia)

12. Credit: Harvard University Libraries and Google Books

13. 39 Cancer of the buccal cavity
40 Cancer of stomach and liver
41 Cancer of
peritoneum, intestines, rectum
...
44 Cancer of skin
45 Cancer of other organs or
not specified
Lung is an “other organ”
Brain is an “other organ”
...
189 Visitation from God
Credit: Stanford Lane Medical Library and Google Books

14. Credit: Joel Dudley, Gini Deshpande, NuMedii

15. Credit: Joel Dudley, Gini Deshpande, NuMedii

16. Rat colonoscopy Rat with Inflammatory
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Bowel Disease After
Epilepsy Drug

17. Thanks
• My lab
• Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
• My companies: NuMedii and Personalis
• My family
• Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• Scientists for sharing their data
• Taxpayers for investing in science