Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease

by Committee on a Framework for Development, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, et al.

Book Overview

Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as-yet-untapped opportunities to use this data to improve health outcomes, Toward Precision Medicine explores the feasibility and need for a new taxonomy of human disease based on molecular biology and develops a potential framework for creating one.

The book says that a new data network that integrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309222222
• ISBN13: 9780309222228
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"