The European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and it forms part of current UK law. A long and complex piece of legislation, the GDPR governs the processing of ...

In Artificial intelligence for genomic medicine we examine the intersection between AI and genomics, the drivers behind the recent rise of AI techniques for genomics and outline existing and emerging ...

Advances in clinical genomics have been enabled by short-read sequencing (SRS) technologies, where the DNA is broken into pieces up to 300 base pairs long. While these technologies have many ...

Transcriptomics is the analysis of the transcriptome, the collection of all ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is present in a sample (a cell, tissue or organ) at a given time. RNA performs many functions ...

This report by PHG Foundation for NHS England, The personalised medicine technology landscape presents an independent evidence synthesis to inform the NHS as it continues to develop its approaches and ...

Any changes in healthcare practice, including the introduction of tests, often requires consideration of their value. Clinical utility is a broad term that is used to denote this usefulness or value ...

In recent months, before attention shifted to the pressing issue of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence (AI) had been hitting the headlines in medical news. Most weeks saw the ...

Genomic technologies have the potential to transform the management of infectious diseases. In Pathogen Genomics Into Practice we set out a roadmap to converting the power of this exciting new ...

The potential of polygenic scores to improve risk stratification has reignited enthusiasm around the use of genetic information to help predict and prevent common disease. A new report from the PHG ...

Synthetic data is artificially generated data that reflects the properties and relationships found in real data. While synthetic data can play an important role in AIaMD development, its use in ...

The extension by the UK Government of measures for the lawful processing of confidential patient information (CPI) for COVID-19 purposes is likely to have been welcomed by researchers. Introduced ...

Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to allow a system to learn from data. There are many potential applications of machine learning for health, for example apps ...