Big Data: A Boom in biomedical sciences

Scientists have been working over years to assemble and accumulate data from biological sources to find solutions for many principal questions. Since a tremendous amount of data has been collected over the past and still increasing at an exponential rate, hence it now becomes unachievable for a human being alone to handle or analyze this data. Most of the data collection and maintenance is now done in digitalized format and hence requires an organization to have better data management and analysis to convert the vast data resource into insights to achieve their objectives. The continuous explosion of information both from biomedical and healthcare sources calls for urgent solutions. Healthcare data needs to be closely combined with biomedical research data to make it more effective in providing personalized medicine and better treatment procedures. Therefore, big data analytics would help in integrating large data sets for proper management, decision-making, and cost-effectiveness in any medical/healthcare organization. The scope of the paper is to highlight the need for big data analytics in healthcare, explain data processing pipeline, and machine learning used to analyze big data.