Outsourcing the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (2023-2024)
Digital biomarkers transform data from wearables into indicators of health outcomes, allowing rapid detection, prevention and management of many diseases. To facilitate the advancement of digital health, the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline (DBDP) has been created as an open-source initiative to disseminate and promote toolkits, reference methods and data as the community standard for digital biomarker development.
This project team explored the barriers to participating in digital biomarker discovery by exploring ways to create an evolving open-source ecosystem that can support and promote collaborative, translational research.
Learn more about this team’s work by reading their team profile.
Timing
Summer 2023 – Spring 2024
Team Outputs
Qualitative data on commercial wearable use
FOMO: Functions for Optimizing Missing Observations (Python library to help researchers understand and manage missing data)
Interactive coding notebooks
Case studies
Addressing the Challenges of Missing Data in Digital Health Studies (Team profile; 2024 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Virtual Showcase)
Image: Logos of the BIG IDEAS Lab and the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline, dbdp.org