Precision Medicine: Addressing the Challenges of Sharing, Analysis, and Privacy at Scale

Rapid technological advances, along with developments in medicine are opening new horizons in the field of personalized and precision medicine. Yet to bridge molecular measurement, clinical observation, social interaction and clinical practice, substantial gains must be made in methods for data integration, analysis, model development, and interpretation. These present daunting challenges of how to ethically share and analyze data, as we aim to ensure privacy, personal initiative, and mitigate disparities. Towards these goals, the Precision Medicine session at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing is presenting fifteen papers covering a broad range of biomedical topics and collectively advancing state of the art in the field.