2019, Volume 5, Issue 6
Engineering >> 2019, Volume 5, Issue 6 doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2019.07.023
Information Science Should Take a Lead in Future Biomedical Research
The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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Abstract
In this commentary, I explain my perspective on the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI)/data science and biomedicine from a long-range retrospective view. The development of modern biomedicine has always been accelerated by the repeated emergence of new technologies. Since all life systems are basically governed by the information in their own DNA, information science has special importance for the study of biomedicine. Unlike in physics, no (or very few) leading laws have been found in biology. Thus, in biology, the "data-to-knowledge" approach is important. AI has historically been applied to biomedicine, and the recent news that an AI-based approach achieved the best performance in an international competition of protein structure prediction may be regarded as another landmark in the field. Similar approaches could contribute to solving problems in genome sequence interpretation, such as identifying cancer-driving mutations in the genome of patients. Recently, the explosive development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been producing massive data, and this trend will accelerate. NGS is not only used for "reading" DNA sequences, but also for obtaining various types of information at the single-cell level. These data can be regarded as grid data points in climate simulation. Both data science and AI will become essential for the integrative interpretation/simulation of these data, and will take a leading role in future precision medicine.
Keywords
Data science ; Artificial intelligence ; Next-generation sequencing ; DNA ; Cancer genome ; Single-cell transcriptomics
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