The fruit of the Human Genome Project are only beginning to be harvested.
It has now been clear for some time that information sciences and computing
are
an integral component to a successful harvest. However, the challenge of
computational
analyses of genomic data sets parallels but is dwarfed by those
of clinical informatics.
At the core of these is the Human Phenome Project:
the systematic characterization
of human phenotypes across populations from
conception to death. The Human Phenome Project
will require novel technical
solutions, a few of which will be presented, and significant
adjustments in
the healthcare delivery process.