I did that data curation and analysis in the mid 2000s, before it was all hip and well paid, and the CS group employed data curators because you need and experi

I did that data curation and analysis in the mid 2000s, before it was all hip and well paid, and the CS group employed data curators because you need and experimented human being, to analyze the data in a peer-reviewed paper, and compare it to the authors’ conclusion. Half the time it doesn’t. Finding reproducible or reproduced experiments happens at an even lower rate. Then, context matter, and we know very little about each of our cell, even less about each one behaves in an ensemble. So no amount of NLP will cure cancer, currently. It’s a simple garbage-in 101 case. It will hopefully change... However, there is a good chance that traditional approaches to science will have worked well enough for most cancers, and NLP will just be a tool to validate after the fact, build comprehensive database and assist with incremental update to a treatment.