PrecisionFDA, an open-source cloud platform for genomic and bioinformatics information, has been released in a closed beta form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, reports Front Line Genomics.
The platform is expected to be integral to the Precision Medicine Initiative, which President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address in January.
"It's a sandbox," Taha Kass-Hout, MD, chief health informatics officer of the FDA, told Front Line Genomics. "It's a place where community can come and work toward advancement of regulatory science for this really important work."
The scheduled full beta launch date for precisionFDA is Dec. 15 and the public rollout is scheduled for March 2016. Parties interested in participating in precisionFDA can request access now.
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