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Ross Lazarus

Researcher at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Publications -  168
Citations -  14238

Ross Lazarus is an academic researcher from Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Single-nucleotide polymorphism. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 167 publications receiving 13467 citations. Previous affiliations of Ross Lazarus include Harvard University & Westmead Hospital.

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Galaxy: A Web‐Based Genome Analysis Tool for Experimentalists

TL;DR: Galaxy is a software system that provides informatics support through a framework that gives experimentalists simple interfaces to powerful tools, while automatically managing the computational details.
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Predicting Flu Trends using Twitter data

TL;DR: The Social Network Enabled Flu Trends (SNEFT) framework is presented, which monitors messages posted on Twitter with a mention of flu indicators to track and predict the emergence and spread of an influenza epidemic in a population.
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Relation of Academic Performance to Physical Activity and Fitness in Children

TL;DR: The results are concordant with the hypothesis that physical activity enhances academic performance, but the cross-sectional nature of the observations limits causal inference, and the disparity for PWC170 gives reason to question whether the associations were due to measurement bias or residual confounding.
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Extracting principal diagnosis, co-morbidity and smoking status for asthma research: evaluation of a natural language processing system

TL;DR: The results are promising, given the complexity of the discharge summaries and the extraction tasks, and the expert-generated gold standard.