ITFoM - The IT future of medicine

  • Hans Lehrach*
  • , Ralf Subrak
  • , Peter Boyle
  • , Markus Pasterk
  • , Kurt Zatloukal
  • , Heimo Müller
  • , Tim Hubbard
  • , Angela Brand
  • , Mark Girolami
  • , Daniel Jameson
  • , Frank J. Bruggeman
  • , Hans V. Westerhoff
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Molecular medicine is undergoing a revolution, creating a data fog that may obscure understanding. The functioning human is analogous to a biological factory controlled by an incredibly complex Information and Communication (IC) network. It is proposed that 7 billion computational replicas be made of those 7 billion human IC networks to enable interrogation and manipulation, for understanding and personalized healthcare. This requires a revolutionary ICT that follows the organization of the biological information and communication flows, with implications for hardware, software and connectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)26-29
Number of pages4
JournalProcedia Computer Science
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, FET 11 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 04-05-201106-05-2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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