On January 30, 2015, I had the great honor of attending the President’s announcement about the Precision Medicine Initiative in the East Room of the White House. Along with many hard-working, visionary luminaries in clinical science, informatics, advocacy, and policy, I listened with great enthusiasm to the fabulous announcement. It was clear from the introduction, given by Elana Simon, that th...

Precision medicine is an emerging and novel approach for both disease treatment and prevention. Precision medicine allows to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease with the aim to tailor the medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each patient. To provide precision medicine to patients researchers needs to analyze huge...