CHICAGO – Neurogeneticists and bioinformaticians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a technique to automate phenotyping of pediatric epilepsy patients to create gene-specific "footprints" in electronic medical records. They hope this computational technique will help researchers expand outcomes studies and eventually lead to better clinical decision support at the point of care.
They described their work in a paper published in Genetics in Medicine last week.