A Look to the Future: Pharmacogenomics and Data Technologies of Today and Tomorrow

Abstract Recent advances in methods to measure organic molecules and phenotypes, describe clinical states, and reason across federated data offer an increasingly precise set of technologies for pharmacogenomics discovery and clinical translation. This chapter explores how the rapid development of biomedical and computational technologies will influence the creation and analysis of pharmacogenomics knowledge. The first several sections will describe advances in the measurement of biological molecules and physiologic states. The following sections will describe emerging computational tools that facilitate data sharing and pharmacogenomic association discovery. The final sections of this chapter will forecast how technologies may be leveraged to an efficient process of discovery and translation.