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Stephen Friend wrote in our October 2011 issue: “When existing symptom-based disease classifications are decoded into their actual omics-based subtypes, there will be a quantum leap in the ability of epidemiologists to track diseases. DNA will do for biomedical informatics what the TCP:IP address does for the Internet: it will allow information to be layered on citizens in ways that will make the promise of personalized medicine a reality.” So it was heartening to learn, as this month’s issue of The Scientist went to press, that the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has earmarked $416 million over the next four years to fund a variety of sequencing projects aimed at using genetic information to enhance clinical treatment decisions.
Technical innovation propelled the omics revolution ...
