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In this scenario, the availability of scalable, easy-to-use software frameworks tailored to support the study of comorbidities over large datasets of patients is essential. We introduce Comorbidity4j, an open-source Java tool to perform systematic analyses of comorbidities by generating interactive Web visualizations to explore and refine results. Comorbidity4j processes user-provided clinical data by identifying significant disease co-occurrences and computing a comprehensive set of comorbidity indices. Patients can be stratified by sex, age and user-defined criteria. Comorbidity4j supports the analysis of the temporal directionality and the sex ratio of diseases. The incremental upload and validation of clinical input data and the customization of comorbidity analyses are performed by an interactive Web interface. With a Web browser, the results of such analyses can be filtered with respect to comorbidity indexes and disease names and explored by means of heat maps and network charts of disease associations. Comorbidity4j is optimized to efficiently process large datasets of clinical data. Besides a software tool for local execution, we provide Comorbidity4j as a Web service to enable users to perform online comorbidity analyses.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Doc: http:\/\/comorbidity4j.readthedocs.io\/; Source code: https:\/\/github.com\/fra82\/comorbidity4j, Web tool: http:\/\/comorbidity.eu\/comorbidity4web\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btz061","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,23]],"date-time":"2019-01-23T15:04:56Z","timestamp":1548255896000},"page":"3530-3532","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Comorbidity4j: a tool for interactive analysis of disease comorbidities over large patient datasets"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"35","author":[{"given":"Francesco","family":"Ronzano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) , Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alba","family":"Guti\u00e9rrez-Sacrist\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9383-528X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laura I","family":"Furlong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) , Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013108054547500_btz061-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1004885.","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1004885","article-title":"Constraints on biological mechanism from disease comorbidity using electronic medical records and database of genetic variants","volume":"12","author":"Bagley","year":"2016","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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