Included in BioWorld's list of the most impactful stories in 2015, which will be published later this month, is the expansion of the global activities in precision medicine. While the field has been growing for some time, boosted by cloud computing and big data analytics, it officially received its stamp of approval and funding boost in January following President Obama's launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), a research effort designed to pioneer a patient care model to accelerate the shift to personalized medicine.