Quantitative analysis of textual data has been long used in the field of social sciences research. This includes data collected from open ended surveys and interview questions. Analysis of text-based data helps in assessment of trends in social sciences.
A bio marker or biological marker, are defined as an indicator of a biological state of a living body. It is a characteristic that is measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes.
Hamlet II helps in quantitative analysis of text. It helps assess the joint occurrences or recurrence of word frequencies in a vocabulary list or in content.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) refers to a diverse range of conditions that affect the heart or blood vessels. Major types of CVDs’ include coronary heart disease, stroke and heart failure. CVDs’, still remain the major cause of death across all the regions of the world.
Biomarker identification based on hypothesis approach uses mechanistic realization of the disease processes. In contrast, discovery based methods have emphasized on recognizing changes in the relative abundance or presence of molecular species (McDermott et al., 2013).
Benchmarking is a process of comparing and contrasting best existing methods to new emerging techniques and methodologies. Benchmarking in biomarker discovery is a method of setting a baseline for identification and classification of new protein and molecules profiling technologies.
Cancer is the abnormal growth of cells that spread to other parts of the body via metastases. It has been a topic of research worldwide since the early 1960s. Since then it has had a great impact on human health and economies worldwide (Jemal et al., 2010).
Malaria is a mosquito borne blood disease, which remains a devastating global health problem. It is caused by the obligate intraerythrocytic protozoa belonging to genus Plasmodium.