Personalized and Precision Medicine Informatics: A Workflow-Based View

Audience: The book provides a detailed overview of PPM workflows, targeting primarily informaticists. Nevertheless, it can be also useful to any health care professionals, students, or scientists interested in PPM. Purpose: As outlined by the editors in the introductory chapter, the book was written with the following three objectives in mind: 1) "to review the present state of the art in PPM and the associated PPM informatics and especially to map out all major forms of PPM and systematize them for better understanding and communication," 2) "to review trends and future developments in PPM and PPM informatics and outline concrete areas of high value research in PPM informatics," and 3) "to provide a consolidated and up to date PPM survey that can assist with the training of PPM researchers and practitioners (including informatics and non-informatics students and professionals)." Contents: The book contents are divided into five parts, including an introductory chapter, three main parts, titled "Classical PPM," "Emerging PPM," and "Integrative Informatics for PPM," and a conclusion.