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Although veterinary knowledge, techniques   In recent years, VetCompass has made   epidemiological research, the VetCompass
        and technologies are rapidly evolving to   extensive use of machine-learning to   team developed a secure system for the
        improve the care that can be offered, many   make sense of the enormous amounts of   transfer of anonymised patient records from
        animals continue to suffer from disorders   data  being  recorded  in  veterinary  clinics.   veterinary practices to a central database.
        that could be reduced or avoided if breed-  VetCompass shares clinical data on over 20   VetCompass is a community that is
        related or environmental risks were better   million UK companion animals, covering over   committed to open access to all information
        understood and shared. VetCompass   200 million clinical notes and half a billion   generated from our research. VetCompass
        evidence is now a major contributor to the   individual sales and treatments – veterinary   papers are open access for free worldwide
        overall evidence base on breed-related   research is now truly into the Big Data age.   impact  and  are  readily  findable  on  the
        health in companion animals, especially   We now use machine-learning models of   VetCompass library  /
        in relation to the harms from extreme   language to identify cases for research and   vetcompass/papers-and-data/original-
        conformations such as brachycephaly.   to understand the subtle contexts in w