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Expert Rev Precis Med Drug Dev. 2019;4(3):189-200. doi: 10.1080/23808993.2019.1617632. Epub 2019 May 20.

Use of big data in drug development for precision medicine: an update.

Expert review of precision medicine and drug development

Tongqi Qian, Shijia Zhu, Yujin Hoshida

Affiliations

  1. Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  2. Liver Tumor Translational Research Program, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.

PMID: 31286058 PMCID: PMC6613936 DOI: 10.1080/23808993.2019.1617632

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Big-data-driven drug development resources and methodologies have been evolving with ever-expanding data from large-scale biological experiments, clinical trials, and medical records from participants in data collection initiatives. The enrichment of biological- and clinical-context-specific large-scale data has enabled computational inference more relevant to real-world biomedical research, particularly identification of therapeutic targets and drugs for specific diseases and clinical scenarios.

AREAS COVERED: Here we overview recent progresses made in the fields: new big-data-driven approach to therapeutic target discovery, candidate drug prioritization, inference of clinical toxicity, and machine-learning methods in drug discovery.

EXPERT OPINION: In the near future, much larger volumes and complex datasets for precision medicine will be generated, e.g., individual and longitudinal multi-omic, and direct-to-consumer datasets. Closer collaborations between experts with different backgrounds would also be required to better translate analytic results into prognosis and treatment in the clinical practice. Meanwhile, cloud computing with protected patient privacy would become more routine analytic practice to fill the gaps within data integration along with the advent of big-data. To conclude, integration of multitudes of data generated for each individual along with techniques tailored for big-data analytics may eventually enable us to achieve precision medicine.

Keywords: Big data; drug development; high-throughput screen; in silico drug discovery; machine learning; precision medicine

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interest The authors have no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or

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