The goal of the Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register (Reuma.pt) is “to register all rheumatic patients treated with biological agents in mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores, ensuring effective monitoring of treatment indication, efficacy and safety.” Researchers of the INESC-ID are applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the free text annotations in Reuma.pt records with […]

Whole gene sequencing identifies deep-intronic variants with potential functional impact in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

An algorithm developed by Miguel Monteiro and Arlindo Oliveira won the third edition of the ISLES challenge 2017 The algorithm allows to infer classifiers that determine authomatically the affected brain areas by ischemic stroke lesions…

PRECISE team deployed an high performance computing cluster (HPC) at IMM. This cluster is available as a private HPC computing resource within the IMM… (image source: Wikipedia)

A cluster was built at INESC-ID/IST with 60 cores (120 threads), 756GB of RAM, and 1.44TB high speed SDD storage (structured as 6 computing nodes, each with 10 cores, 20 threads, 128GB of RAM, and 240GB of storage each). These resources are integrated in a OpenStack (https://www.openstack.org/) installation, allowing the dynamic and on demand allocation […]

PRECISE deployed in production a National Stroke Database. This database is available to all the hospitals collaborating in PRECISE…   (image source: Wikipedia) Test deploy (feel free to play with it): http://stroketest.sysresearch.org     Production deploy (in use… for only registered users of the hospitals collaborating in PRECISE): https://stroke.precisemed.org  

Book “The Digital Mind – How Science Is Redefining Humanity” published by a researcher of the PRECISE team…