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Therefore, efficiently and effectively integrating and mining these invaluable data hold the great promising of making precision medicine a reality. However, integrating and mining these large-scale, heterogeneous, and noisy dataset pose several fundamental computational challenges and have therefore become a bottleneck to clinical decision making and medical knowledge discovery. This thesis is a systematic study of mining these biological and healthcare data for precision medicine. I take a network perspective and integrate these datasets into a large knowledge network where nodes are biological concepts and links are biological relationships. I then propose a novel computational framework to mine these knowledge networks. To demonstrate the effectiveness of mining knowledge networks, I will introduce how this framework can be used to understand molecular functions, accelerate drug discovery, and support clinical decision making. To understand molecular functions, I will show how a knowledge network can substantially improve gene function prediction performance and further annotate novel gene sets by mining scientific literature-based knowledge network. To accelerate drug discovery, I will use the knowledge network to predict drug targets and identify drug associated pathways. To support clinical decision making, I will discuss our efforts in integrating genomics data with clinical data to cluster patients, predict patient survival and visualize patient records. Finally, I will conclude this thesis by summarizing how mining knowledge networks advance precision medicine and discussing the promising future work of this thesis.","abstract_html":"Akin to the exponential growth of genomic sequencing data, high-throughput techniques in proteomics and biotechnology have been creating ever-expanding repositories of proteomic, pharmacological, and interactomic data. 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I take a network perspective and integrate these datasets into a large knowledge network where nodes are biological concepts and links are biological relationships. I then propose a novel computational framework to mine these knowledge networks. To demonstrate the effectiveness of mining knowledge networks, I will introduce how this framework can be used to understand molecular functions, accelerate drug discovery, and support clinical decision making. To understand molecular functions, I will show how a knowledge network can substantially improve gene function prediction performance and further annotate novel gene sets by mining scientific literature-based knowledge network. To accelerate drug discovery, I will use the knowledge network to predict drug targets and identify drug associated pathways. To support clinical decision making, I will discuss our efforts in integrating genomics data with clinical data to cluster patients, predict patient survival and visualize patient records. 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