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Biomedical Data Translator Technical Feasibility Assessment of Reasoning Tool: Stanford University

Award Number: OT2TR002515
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 12/29/2017
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2020

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Biomedical Data Translator Technical Feasibility Assessment of Reasoning Tool: Stanford University - The IRIS system is used as the front end for the current demo. IRIS is an open source conversational agent that was built originally to facilitate tasks in data science for non-programmers. We have modified it to recognize key entities (drugs, genes, diseases) and serve as a prototype conversational interface for allowing users to type in free-text and then be prompted for information needed to complete a query. The results of the query are displayed and stored to aid further analysis and ease of information retrieval. IRIS is a collaboration between the Brown Institute at Stanford with support from the NSF in the Bernstein lab at Stanford Computer Science. The backend is written in Python and the front end is written in Javascript/CSS/HTML. IRIS can be compiled into a single executable that can be downloaded and used by a user; it can make API calls to do computationally intensive tasks. Human queries are recognized using logistic regression (trained on a provided set of “synonymous queries” in English) to find keywords and map to most likely templated queries. IRIS can gather parameters by conversationally asking for additional information. IRIS can be integrated with any other Python-based tools, and is available for use by all participants in the Biomedical Data Translator project freely.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2021	2018	LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE	450 JANE STANFORD WAY	STANFORD	CA	94305	SANTA CLARA	USA	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences	000	1	5/2/2021	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $436,578 )
2018	2018	LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE	450 SERRA MALL	STANFORD	CA	94305	SANTA CLARA	USA	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences	001	1	2/8/2018	NEW	$0
2018	2018	LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE	450 SERRA MALL	STANFORD	CA	94305	SANTA CLARA	USA	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences	000	1	12/29/2017	NEW	$78,500
2018	2018	LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE	450 SERRA MALL	STANFORD	CA	94305	SANTA CLARA	USA	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences	002	1	3/3/2018	NEW	$358,078
														Subtotal = $436,578

Grand Total All Awards = $436,578

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Biomedical Data Translator Technical Feasibility Assessment of Reasoning Tool: Stanford University

Award Number: OT2TR002515

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 12/29/2017

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2020

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