Precision Medicine, Personalized Medicine, Omics and Big Data: Concepts and Relationships

Copyright: © 2015 Zhang XD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. On January 20, 2015, US President Obama announced at his 2015 State of the Union Address that he was launching a new precision medicine initiative [1]. On January 30, the Obama administration unveiled details about the Precision Medicine Initiative. Launched with a $215 million investment in the US President’s 2016 budget, the Precision Medicine Initiative will pioneer a new model of patientpowered research that ultimately help deliver the right treatment to the right patient at the right time [2]. On March 11, 2015, it had been reported that China is planning to invest 60 billion Yuan (nearly $10 billion) in precision medicine (20 billion from the Central Government and the remaining 40 billion from local governments and companies) before 2030 [3].