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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2016 Jun 14;107:50–58. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.06.003

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A Precision Medicine research strategy. Modified from Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease [16]. Precision Medicine starts with the creation of an Information Commons that interactively houses multiple “-omics” data types along with historical exposure and lifestyle information from individual patients. Bioinformatic integration of these data will lead to the development of a Knowledge Network that will be used to improve disease taxonomy, the application of clinical medicine and the study of molecular mechanisms of disease. An iterative process of acquiring information on individuals or cohorts of patients, making improvements in taxonomy and utilizing that knowledge to care for patients and design new studies that further feed the Information Commons will refine the molecular taxonomic classifiers and improve clinical medicine.