Precision medicine is designed to target diagnostic, treatment and prevention strategies to individuals based on their biological and clinical profile. A number of companies are integrating data from multiple sources such as tissue samples, epidemiological and biochemical data, and genomics sequencing, and then using specific mining tools to analyze trends and patterns in the collective data. Turning those data from big to informative and useful can lead to more effective disease prevention, prognosis, diagnostics and therapeutics. Read More
The NIH has a serious problem, and it's not alone. Even as big datasets driving new threads of biomedical progress proliferate, a critical shortfall is showing up in another realm: "There is a desperate need for individuals who can develop creative approaches to bioinformatics problems." the NIH told members of the National Science and Technology Council last year. Read More
