Promise of personalized medicine

The goal of personalized medicine is arguably as old as medicine itself,1 and the promise of using simultaneously broad (all genes and all exposures), precise (single molecules or cells), and unbiased (not dependent on prior knowledge) data sets to tailor clinical care is the compelling objective of systems biology as applied to medicine. In this issue, Virkud et  al2 present a useful and informative overview of the “big data” domains, including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics along with the microbiome and exposome and their integrated effects on the metabolome, which are the grist for the systems biology mill.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research