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Regulatory bioinformatics for food and drug safety. - PubMed - NCBI

Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2016 Oct;80:342-7. doi: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2016.05.021. Epub 2016 May 18.

Regulatory bioinformatics for food and drug safety.

Healy MJ1, Tong W2, Ostroff S3, Eichler HG4, Patak A5, Neuspiel M6, Deluyker H7, Slikker W Jr8.

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"Regulatory Bioinformatics" strives to develop and implement a standardized and transparent bioinformatic framework to support the implementation of existing and emerging technologies in regulatory decision-making. It has great potential to improve public health through the development and use of clinically important medical products and tools to manage the safety of the food supply. However, the application of regulatory bioinformatics also poses new challenges and requires new knowledge and skill sets. In the latest Global Coalition on Regulatory Science Research (GCRSR) governed conference, Global Summit on Regulatory Science (GSRS2015), regulatory bioinformatics principles were presented with respect to global trends, initiatives and case studies. The discussion revealed that datasets, analytical tools, skills and expertise are rapidly developing, in many cases via large international collaborative consortia. It also revealed that significant research is still required to realize the potential applications of regulatory bioinformatics. While there is significant excitement in the possibilities offered by precision medicine to enhance treatments of serious and/or complex diseases, there is a clear need for further development of mechanisms to securely store, curate and share data, integrate databases, and standardized quality control and data analysis procedures. A greater understanding of the biological significance of the data is also required to fully exploit vast datasets that are becoming available. The application of bioinformatics in the microbiological risk analysis paradigm is delivering clear benefits both for the investigation of food borne pathogens and for decision making on clinically important treatments. It is recognized that regulatory bioinformatics will have many beneficial applications by ensuring high quality data, validated tools and standardized processes, which will help inform the regulatory science community of the requirements necessary to ensure the safe introduction and effective use of these applications.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

KEYWORDS:

Bioinformatics; Drug safety; Food safety; GCRSR; GSRS; Genomics; Microbiome; Next-generation sequencing; Regulatory bioinformatics; Regulatory science

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27208439

 

DOI:

 

10.1016/j.yrtph.2016.05.021

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