The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) to help restore Tohoku's medical system to its pre-earthquake state and help its medical community further develop its research efforts. Thomson Reuters is providing the organisation with a suite of solutions including its CortellisTM for Informatics Gene Variant Database to support the organisation's unique, large-scale genetic research study to further personalised medicine.
ToMMo was established in February 2012 to help rebuild Tohoku, after the devastating earthquake in 2011, with a state-of-art research platform and a study designed to record the changing health of families over a ten-year period, examining the relationships between genetic traits and lifestyle and the future incidence of certain diseases. The three-generational study is the largest project of its kind designed to understand the causal relationships between disease, environment and genetics. ToMMo expects that the results of the study will help build higher-quality medical services that are better adapted to a patient's genetic traits (genome information). The large-scale study is helping to rebuild the community by training local healthcare professionals and experts, and by constructing a biobank to store health information, medical records, clinical test data, blood samples and other data.
Thomson Reuters is supporting ToMMo's study and biobank by providing an array of its research solutions, including its Gene Variant Database, which offers gene variant information related to diseases and treatment responsiveness, efficacy and toxicity, as well as information on the drugs used in treatment. This will effectively support the project's risk analysis and drug efficacy screening by genotype, and will contribute to the organisation's overall aim in realising personalized medicine and disease prevention.
Cortellis for Informatics is a series of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that access data from Thomson Reuters Cortellis, the premier source of Life Science information, to be integrated into an organisation's internal systems. The Gene Variant Database within the platform is the industry's leading gene variant index, with data from journals, scientific papers, proceedings, patents, clinical trial registrations to clinical guidelines and FDA approval documents. It is manually curated by Life Science experts and also includes pathway and clinical trial information.
