Special Issue on “Big Data and Precision Medicine”

The journalGenomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics(GPB)is now inviting submissions for a special issue on the topic of “Big data for biomedicine”to be published in the spring of 2016.

For many complex diseases, the traditional “one drug for one disease” scenario may soon become history. The new concept of “precision medicine” will heavily rely on the collection of large amount of data from the population as well as patients of specific diseases. Thanks to the fast development of various omics technologies, including genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, it has become increasingly feasible to gather high-dimensional omics data from the same subjects. How to efficiently utilize the “big data” has now evolved into one of the greatest challenges in next-generation biomedicine. The imminent problems include data storage, management, security, standard, accessibility, visualization, and integration strategies, to name a few. The ultimate goal is to develop genetic risk prediction models, novel biomarkers, and treatment strategies for cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological disorders. Big projects on genome sequencing initiated recently in several countries are expected to significantly boost the development and maturation of methodologies in this field.

We are pleased to announce a special issue on “Big data and precision biomedicine” in GPB, which is likely to provide a platform for quality papers focusing on the curation and integration of multi-omics data for human health. Drs.Xiangdong FangandHongxing Leifrom Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences are Guest Editors of this issue. The topics may include (but not be limited to):

? Curation of various types of omics data relevant to human health

? Curation of various types of medical data

? Integration of omics and medical data

? Online visualization of integrated data

? Functional discoveries from big data

? Data curation and integration in chemical genomics

? Big data related to the interaction between human and environment

? Development of web servers for big data

? Development of cloud computing platforms for biomedicine

? Strategies for big data storage and management

? Data standard and ontologies

? Ethical issues on the sharing of big data of human origin

Original studies, reviews, databases, web servers, methods, application notes,etc.are all welcome. The portfolio will be open for incoming manuscripts tillNovember 15, 2015.

Manuscripts can be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.com/gpb/. The Guide for Authors is also available on this web site. Note to mention that the submission is for this special issue.

For further information, please contact us:

Dr. Fang (fangxd@big.ac.cn);

Dr Lei (leihx@big.ac.cn );

Editorial Office (editor@big.ac.cn).