Buetow Kenneth H
NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology (NCICBIIT), 2115 E Jefferson St, Suite 6000, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.
Per Med. 2009 Jul;6(4):439-448. doi: 10.2217/pme.09.18.
To implement personalized medicine successfully, multidisciplinary teams of collaborating scientists must manage and analyze vast quantities of genomic and clinical outcomes data in a cohesive and integrated way. This process is complex and not supported by the existing IT infrastructure and tools available to most researchers. To address these needs, the National Cancer Institute initiated the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid initiative in 2004, to develop and deploy the interoperable IT infrastructure and tools needed to help basic and clinical researchers manage and share these data. Now, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid is being deployed to cancer centers and other biomedical research organizations across the USA and around the world, facilitating collaborative research that will ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes.
为了成功实施个性化医疗，合作的科学家组成的多学科团队必须以连贯和整合的方式管理和分析大量的基因组和临床结果数据。这个过程很复杂，大多数研究人员现有的信息技术基础设施和工具无法提供支持。为满足这些需求，美国国家癌症研究所于2004年发起了癌症生物医学信息网格计划，以开发和部署所需的可互操作的信息技术基础设施和工具，帮助基础研究人员和临床研究人员管理和共享这些数据。现在，癌症生物医学信息网格正在美国和世界各地的癌症中心及其他生物医学研究机构进行部署，促进合作研究，最终改善患者的治疗效果。
