title: [Emphasis on the application of precision medicine in ophthalmology].
abstract: Accompany with dramatically growth of large-scale biological databases (such as human genome sequence), improvement of life science and development of international clinical trials, science offers great potential for improving health care through precision medicine. As a hot topic recently, precision medicine might launch a revolution of the methodology in medical research. How to achieve precision medicine in clinical ophthalmology by means of biological data mining is a challenge for ophthalmologist-scientists. The best approach for advanced individual medicine is to buildup the digital ophthalmology, which includes human eye biobank, national biological databases network, clinical department, basic research lab, and international clinical trial center. The system of digital ophthalmology could explore the methods for ophthalmology research, integrate the source of eye biologic databases, promote international cooperation, and thus eventually supply the opportunity for translational medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai First People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200080, China.
authors.forename: X D
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005125:Eye Banks; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000639:trends