Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative Is The Ultimate Big-Data Project

Curing both rare diseases and common cancers doesn't just require new research, but also linking all the data that researchers already have.

Modern medicine is incredibly data-intensive, especially now that doing a full genetic sequencing of every patient is becoming affordable and more prevalent. New efforts to develop tailored treatments for illnesses—known as precision medicine—will require collecting and sharing data on a hard-to-comprehend scale. That's the biggest takeaway from the White House Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Summit.

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