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Aloha HN, In 2018 I moved to Hawai'i from Seattle for my wife's job and was surprised to learn there was no software industry there (I assumed there would be,
by breck 4y ago
Aloha HN,
In 2018 I moved to Hawai'i from Seattle for my wife's job and was surprised to learn there was no software industry there (I assumed there would be, being in the middle of China and the West Coast). So I looked around for interesting things to work on and ended up joining the University of Hawai'i Cancer Center.
At first I didn't know anything about cancer or biology, but knew a lot about software, AI, and data science. About a year in it started to click that this was a big information problem. And I had an idea on how to solve those.
Working at a cancer center I became someone my friends would come to when they (or their parents) were diagnosed with cancer. Sadly, two very close friends passed, and it broke my heart that I failed to help them. I kept at it.
Finally, last fall, I got the first glimmer of hope that my idea might have promise. The idea is to build a massive strongly typed database with a huge number of edges. Another way to put it is just building a massive (very, very high quality) CSV file.
It will work. It will radically improve cancer outcomes. (And of course, all other research domains will then follow our lead)
It's starting to come to life. Hoping to accelerate it with outside funds. And not sell my house (but I will if I have to).
Would love any feedback. You don't have to sugar coat anything, I have very thick skin.
Thanks!
-Breck
- taubek 4y agoI see that you are rather small team, do you have your own servers (bare metal at some data center) or are you cloud based? Did you incorporate data from some datasets such as Hetionet dataset? I've seen it model at https://playground.memgraph.com/sandbox/hetionet https://playground.memgraph.com/sandbox/hetionet
- breck 4y ago> do you have your own servers (bare metal at some data center) or are you cloud based? CancerDB runs on a single droplet at Digital Ocean. > Hetionet dataset No, had not seen Hetionet before! This is awesome—thank you! I'm incorporating some stuff from it now.
- taubek 4y agoI'm glad that I was able to share something useful for you. Good luck with your project!