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Personalized Medicine: Redening Cancer Treatment

Predict the eect of Genetic Variants to enable Personalized Medicine

$15,000 145 teams 3 months to go

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Overview

Description A lot has been said during the past several years about how precision medicine and, more
concretely, how genetic testing is going to disrupt the way diseases like cancer are treated.
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But this is only partially happening due to the huge amount of manual work still required. Memorial
Prizes Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) launched this competition, accepted by the NIPS 2017
Competition Track, because we need your help to take personalized medicine to its full potential.
Timeline

Once sequenced, a cancer tumor can have thousands of genetic mutations. But the challenge is
distinguishing the mutations that contribute to tumor growth (drivers) from the neutral mutations
(passengers).

Currently this interpretation of genetic mutations is being done manually. This is a very time-
consuming task where a clinical pathologist has to manually review and classify every single genetic
mutation based on evidence from text-based clinical literature.

For this competition MSKCC is making available an expert-annotated knowledge base where world-
class researchers and oncologists have manually annotated thousands of mutations.

We need your help to develop a Machine Learning algorithm that, using this knowledge base as a
baseline, automatically classies genetic variations.

Kaggle is excited to partner with research groups to push forward the frontier of machine learning.
Research competitions make use of Kaggle's platform and experience, but are largely organized by the
research group's data science team. Any questions or concerns regarding the competition data,
quality, or topic will be addressed by them.

Leaderboard Kernels 31 discussion topics

Personalised Medicine - EDA wit Machine generated test data

1 Dan Ofer
28 votes 20 hours ago 0 replies an hour ago

2 the1owl
Data exploration we need cancer experts to explai
3 Prateek Singhal and Surecomm 0 votes 15 hours ago 3 replies 5 hours ago

4 clustier
Redening Treatment [0.64460] Welcome from MSKCC
5 Rafa Jankowski 16 votes a day ago 11 replies 7 hours ago

6 nuptsww
Brief insight on Genetic variations Test of overt?
7 huiqin 14 votes 2 days ago 3 replies 10 hours ago

8 jwpe
Basic one Clarifying External Data from MS
5 votes 7 days ago 12 replies 14 hours ago

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