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>And I got told in no uncertain terms what is the gist of this article: The value lies in the molecular and clinical data. In 2021 I would add digital pathology / imaging data.

I feel like you are trying to tell me something REALLY valuable, but I don't quite understand it. Can you please elaborate?

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My take: answering questions using clinical data > answering questions with papers

There is immense value in clinical data (all the information captured and siloed through EHR). Pharma companies pay for access to it to gather real-world evidence (RWE) how, for example, their drug performs. Molecular information is increasingly valuable too for research, biomarker development, patient cohort identification etc. The imaging data and pathology data are valuable because they are typically expertly annotated and can be used to train computer-vision algorithms etc. to solve medical problems - like diagnosis.

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