title: HARNESSING BIG DATA FOR PRECISION MEDICINE: INFRASTRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS.
abstract: Precision medicine is a health management approach that accounts for individual differences in genetic backgrounds and environmental exposures. With the recent advancements in high-throughput omics profiling technologies, collections of large study cohorts, and the developments of data mining algorithms, big data in biomedicine is expected to provide novel insights into health and disease states, which can be translated into personalized disease prevention and treatment plans. However, petabytes of biomedical data generated by multiple measurement modalities poses a significant challenge for data analysis, integration, storage, and result interpretation. In addition, patient privacy preservation, coordination between participating medical centers and data analysis working groups, as well as discrepancies in data sharing policies remain important topics of discussion. In this workshop, we invite experts in omics integration, biobank research, and data management to share their perspectives on leveraging big data to enable precision medicine.Workshop website: http://tinyurl.com/PSB17BigData; HashTag: #PSB17BigData.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Informatics Training Program, Stanford University 3165 Porter Dr., Room 2270, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, khyu@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Kun-Hsing
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Steven N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldfeder
authors.forename: Qiangfeng Cliff
authors.initials: QC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Stephen C J
authors.initials: SCJ
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Snyder
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology; D057225:Data Mining / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*