Definition of personalised data types within BioMedBridges

The purpose of deliverable 8.2 is to describe the data types pertinent for personalised medicine and the links between them. To do this, we first identified a concrete use case: acute myeloid leukemia and then identified the needs of the key stakeholders: physicians, clinical researchers, biomedical researchers, and patients. Guided by these needs we built a prototype data model for structuring, organising and annotating the patient data accordingly. The data model will form the basis for the prototype implementation of an IT solution for storing, management and querying of the personalised medicine data which will then be used to implement and demonstrate the personalised medicine informatics pipeline (deliverable 8.3).

This report starts by briefly explaining the opportunities and challenges related to practising personalised medicine. We then describe a concrete case of applying personalised medicine, analyse the stakeholder needs, enumerate the types of data (both private and public) to actually gain insights into the patient data. The report concludes by specifying a prototype data model for structuring and organising the data in order to meet stakeholder needs.