Title: 2009 and beyond: the decade of personalised medicine

Authors: Pan Du, Simon M. Lin, Mary Qu Yang, Jack Y. Yang

Addresses: The Biomedical Informatics Center, and the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. ' The Biomedical Informatics Center, and the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. ' National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20852 USA; Oak Ridge, D.O.E., USA. ' Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, P.O. Box 400888, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-0888, USA

Abstract: With a better understanding of the human genome, it is possible to tailor the medical care, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, to an individual|s needs. This revolution of medical care is called Personalised Medicine. This paper provides a brief review of recent progresses in high-throughput measurement technologies, their effects on personalise medicine, milestone projects in human genome researches and related challenges in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Keywords: human genome; molecular information; personalised medicine; bioinformatics; computational biology; tailored medical care; high-throughput measurement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCBDD.2008.022205

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2008 Vol.1 No.4, pp.329 - 333

Published online: 22 Dec 2008 *

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